Buyers will be required to build houses that use pier-and-beam foundations, which don't affect the natural terrain as much as concrete-slab foundations, according to Mr. Kyno, a partner in the development and the property's real estate agent at Sleeping Giant Sotheby's International Realty.
Another student, Kiersten Hill, designed a community constructed of shipping containers and situated on an out-of-use pier in Manhattan, which was given a park-like landscaping makeover.
Birmingham International, with an imminent runway extension and a barely used pier fit for long-haul Airbus A380s, claims to be another answer to capacity constraints, especially once high-speed rail slashes journey times.
"It's a great way for us to use the pier," Ms. Lyon said of the concert series.
Port Authority officials said some maritime companies had indicated that they would be interested in using Piers 9 to 11 and that they expected detailed submissions on those plans.
Using Piers's logic we should be telling all sorts of children they're not normal.
The third plan put together by members of the community who use the pier is far less formal.
From the diplomacy file: Several months ago, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey promised a nonprofit group called the Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn that it could use a pier on the East River for a Fourth of July fund-raising party.
Parents of young athletes who use the pier presented a plan that would expand the playing fields there while allowing for two 22-story residential towers on the uplands portion of the site — the strip of parkland between the pier and the West Side Highway.
Another jetty was built on the south west corner in 1898 which reached deep water even at low tide, thus allowing steamers to use the pier at all states of the tide.
... I have patiently waited 20 years, and was expecting the city to abide by its own ordinances". Instead, she said, the owner, John Vallely, applied for a business license to use the pier for boat rentals.
