Check out Ted Panton’s article in the DJC’s Waterfront Development special section. He’s worked on several waterfront developments in the northwest and is an in-house authority on waterfront development issues, and he has some good insights and observations that will impact our waterfronts in the coming years, including:
By 2040, the Puget Sound region is expected to add another 1.7 million inhabitants. With many cities and municipalities (and their urban growth boundaries) fronting our waterways, other forms of development beyond water-dependent uses on our state’s shorelines are inevitable. What follows is a discussion of how mixed-use projects can achieve the necessary balance that this intersection of growth and ecology requires.
The full article is available here.