BIG IDEA: A waterfront district that encourages good jobs and opportunity for local businesses, creatives and residents
How could this BIG IDEA evolve in the future?
How does this BIG IDEA address the themes of the guiding principles?
Connectivity
- Extends street network through the Elephant Lot to connect to the waterfront
- Enhanced intersections on Shoreline Drive
- Better connectivity to Alamitos Beach on the east
Economic Resiliency
- Extension of the East Village Arts District creates more opportunities for local artists and creatives, and businesses including those in traditionally disadvantaged communities
- Potential to create a campus or institutional base to further innovation/creative entrepreneurshipwith community benefits
- Potential to expand the Convention Center/replace the Arena to create a modern facility
Everyone's Shoreline
- Create a larger park /recreational space on Marina Green with consolidated parking for the existing Marina
- Provides dedicated, secured parking for boat owners
Environmental Resiliency and Sustainability
- Opportunity to create an enhanced edge along the park/Marina through examples such as –
- Enhanced Revetment or Levee
- Flood Wall Park
- Deployable Flood Barriers
