Posted January 24, 201213 yr Help Help please! Well, I normally wouldn't do my research this way but I'm having difficulty with finding some info for project at work. I need to find some cities that have thriving residential (or commercial) districts that abut either a working waterfront port or some other type of industrial area or rail yard.
January 25, 201213 yr That's going to be difficult to find in this country thanks to zoning but there are a few that pop-out in my mind. Belltown in Seattle is adjacent to their waterfront port. One can argue Long Island City in Queens (it's certainly booming) and Fell's Point in Baltimore. The West Bottoms area of Kansas Cit also comes to mind. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 25, 201213 yr Oh, and that Waterfront area of DC (where the Nationals play) comes to mind for a newish area that is still port-heavy. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 27, 201213 yr Help Help please! Well, I normally wouldn't do my research this way but I'm having difficulty with finding some info for project at work. I need to find some cities that have thriving residential (or commercial) districts that abut either a working waterfront port or some other type of industrial area or rail yard. Buffalo has some waterfront developments along Lakefront Boulevard, but they're on a cove and separated from commercial shipping traffic that's on the waterway where the Navy ships and planes are located. But there is also the Marine Drive Apartments -- seven 12-story apartment buildings right next to this waterway where there apparently were commercial docks but they now appear to be all closed and turned over to pleasure craft. What about some of Pittsburgh's new developments along the navigable Monongahela, just up-river from downtown? I'm thinking of the South Side Works (mixed used on former J&L Steel mill), The Waterfront (mostly retail on former US Steel Homestead Works), The Sandcastle waterpark which is next to the commercial waterway, busy rail lines and a Whemco steel castings plant. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 27, 201213 yr I'm thinking the south branch of the Chicago river...around chinatown and River City (uncompleted stepchild to Marina City by the same architect) The entire Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago is along a huge rail yard north of the main commercial street which is 18th st. Pilsen is the traditionally Mexican neighborhood in Chicago. The stretch of 18th street goes from Halsted to Western...east near Halsted is gentrifying and hipster and it gets progressively more Mexican as you go to the west toward Western Ave. North of that railyard is UIC and the Medical Center area (Rush Hospital and Cook County) and United Center. The heart of Pilsen is the 18th Street stop on the Pink line around Ashland Ave.
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