This project was completed for graduate-level course that focused on the planning and designing of urban waterfronts.

2.  Located in Bayonne, New Jersey.
 Project area is 296 acres (0.46 square miles).
 Uses: Residential, commercial, cultural, open
space, light industrial, etc.
 Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority (BLRA)
 Has owned the land since October 2001.
 Oversees the entire redevelopment of the site.
Accessed from “The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor: Full Speed Ahead!”.

3.  Land uses vary by
district
 No project cost yet
(project will be built in
phases).
 Funding, investors, proj
ect phasing, and
timeline have not
been outlined.
 Details hint at a
proposed build-out
within 30 years (~2030-
2040?)

4. Circa 1899 Circa 1907

5. Industrial Waterfront
Balanced Waterfront

6.  Reconnects
Bayonne w/ eastern
waterfront.
 Grows tax base.
 Supports Hudson-
Bergen Light Rail w/
TWO TODs and
possible streetcar.
 Provides public
access to waterfront

7.  Sustainability element:
 Waterfront location
 Cul-de-sac-like
geography of pier.
 Urban vitality element:
 Economic
development
potential.
 Promotes quality of
life, but for who?
o Equity yet to be Accessed from “The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor” .
addressed.

8. Accessed from “The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor: Full Speed Ahead!”.

9. Accessed from “The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor: Full Speed Ahead!”.

10.  If built in phases, piecemeal development will likely be the
outcome.
 Produces “a more traditional urbanism that is…popular”
(Rybczynski, 2010) (i.e. Battery Park City, NYC).
 Piecemeal development: Influenced by market forces.
 Battery Park City: Positive cash flow occurred less than 20
years after initial construction began.
Battery Park City
and Peninsula
at Bayonne
Harbor: A
Comparison

11. Battery Park City: Extension
of street grid, and pedestrian
tunnels to subway system, tie
“BPC” into rest of
Manhattan.
BPC: Attracts visitors from
outside the development
Does the case of
BPC provide a
recipe for success
in the case of The
Peninsula at
Bayonne Harbor?

12.  Unless otherwise mentioned, all figures and graphics were
accessed from “The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor (BLRA
Redevelopment Plan)”.
 “The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor: Full Speed Ahead!”.
 Rybczynski, W. (2010). Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About
Cities. New York: Scribner.