The thing is, if new housing isn't created regionally (including on the waterfront, down on the peninsula and the Western neighborhoods) on criticism that it's just for the ultra-rich, existing homes elsewhere like in the Mission, Bernal Heights and maybe eventually Bayview end up becoming luxury-priced.
When we left Philly, one of our first stops was Baltimore, from The 8x10 to the waterfront down there, to the street fairs and city festivals — and the Recher Theatre.
Pick up a local history tome and a latte at James Bay Coffee and Books and make for the area's expansive waterfront, facing down hair-whipping ocean breezes at clifftop Beacon Hill Park or perusing the bobbling houseboats at Fisherman's Wharf.
THE freight train tracks that snake along Jay Street on the Brooklyn waterfront were laid down in 1904, to carry coffee beans and other cargo from docks to warehouses.
I have driven through the city's waterfront district, knocking down pillars as if they were dominoes ("Pier pillar: $1,000," the game reported dutifully. "Cafe windows: $7,000. Water truck: $50,000").
The price was previously cut to $26.5 million, and as of last week, the waterfront property went down at a further discount.
The route was to be the Waterfront Freeway, scaled down to a boulevard in 1974.
Since industry left the waterfront, Dumbo — Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass — has variously been a deserted no-man's-land, a haven for artists, a hip loft destination and a target of upscale developers.
(In Providence, Mr. Dion and his team dug in a former dump on the edge of the Seekonk River; in New Bedford, on the spot where a 19th-century building in the city's historic downtown waterfront burned down a few years ago).
Earlier in the evening, Gail Humphrey, a township resident and principal spokeswoman for the Friends of the Weehawken Waterfront, ran down a litany of concerns, from building heights to what she said was the state's lax standard for capping contaminated ground with 18 inches of topsoil.
Located on the Alabama Gulf Coast, right in the heart of the Mobile waterfront and down the street from the bars and restaurants on downtown Dauphin Street, if you're looking for something to do this weekend and want to support a great cause, I highly recommend it.
