Riverfront vision

I'm sharing this because I think it's a first for us and a little unusual ...

A few months ago, a local city commission deadlocked on a developer's plan to buy and tear down a waterfront restaurant and then buy and tear down the riverfront City Hall, instead adding a bunch of condos in a otherwise quaint, old, flourishing downtown.

The mayor then sought residents' input on what should occur if that part of town should be redeveloped.

No one responded.

Except us.

We found an architect several of us knew -- whose dad designed the City Hall and restaurant -- and gave him our idea for that part of downtown -- to create a massive riverfront park and finance it by building a block-long of buildings matching the rest of downtown, and including a new old-style City Hall. He offered to help us for free, came up with a plan, and we got a page designer to help us show it, in color.

Here's how we presented it in our Stuart and Port St. Lucie zones ... it's our first attempt at using a double-truck to present something important.

We tried it to tell it without a narrative ...

Check it out ...

Click here for a PDF copy

Larry Reisman
Scripps (Fla.) Treasure Coast Newspapers