The winning entry of an international competition, this plan offers San Diego a unique chance to authentically connect the social and physical fabric of the city to the bay. Positioned between an emerging neckless of bay-front amenities on the North Embarcadero and the unfortunate barrier like wall of tourist resources to the south, the site calls for a bold and engaging statement - not in terms of iconographic architecture but in civic activity, community recreation and physical engagement with the bay. The plan achieves these goals with two simple gestures. The existing city street system and familiar patterns of lot development are extended into the Port District jurisdiction and continued to the water's edge. Secondly, a great circular public boardwalk will offer strolling, pet walking and jogging with unique views both up and down the bay and back to the city. This paseo, or Arc Walk also acts as a breakwater and engages additional amenities for residents and tourists alike such as a 6.5 acre central park, a downtown beach with children's play area and volleyball court, Tuna Harbor and the G Street Mole amphitheater with it's floating stage. We think of it as a very large piece of "urban furniture".
