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| Waterfront idea makers competition, Perkins Eastman |
There is currently an open competition to professional design firms and the public to submit ideas on how the city can help shape the Old Sacramento waterfront with new ideas. Winners will receive an award and the city will consider all ideas and select projects to implement. You can vote for your favorite entry till March 20th.
It’s always strange to me when a professional design firm
takes a creative license to change more than just the area of focus. Perkins Eastman does this horribly
by adding eight or so building around Old Sacramento by destroying others in addition to other things not in the scope of work.
Several of the concepts have fun ideas to build on, but many ideas involve
busting up waterfront boardwalk the city just spent $7.7 million replacing to be ADA compliant. I’m also not loving the ideas of
developing the open park space that is still in Old Sacramento. Overall, I hope the city gets some good ideas
to bring more the area. It was not that long ago the city did a similar competition
for the Capitol Mall, I wonder if anything will even come of that?
Go here to vote: http://www.cityofsacramento.org/WIM
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| Waterfront idea makers competition, Stantec |
And the winner is... Perkins Eastman. I think it was their fancy rendering that got the votes, not the actual idea because destroying several blocks around Old Sacramento to build new structures was never in the scope of work for this competition.
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