Greenwich South Master Plan

POSTED ON: 10.13.2009

This master plan uses an unusual urban park/plaza to reconnect portions of the city torn asunder by the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and related infrastructure in 1950. WXY developed strategies to strengthen connections through the 8-acre site and between surrounding neighborhoods, and to create a new residential neighborhood south of the World Trade Center site..

POSTED ON: 10.13.2009

The detailed masterplan and engineering studies, completed in 2005 for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, showed the opportunity for renewed connections all the way from Broadway to the Battery Park City esplanade.

POSTED ON: 10.13.2009

Using a park to negotiate the connection over the BBT exit created a look into what the future could hold for this neighborhood: regenerated streets, preserving the scale and density of this part of lower Manhattan, and providing much needed city services such as a bus parking facility, along with 2.7M sf of new residential development.

POSTED ON: 10.13.2009

The Downtown Alliance's recent launch of an exhibition of new proposals for Greenwich South shows how many of the ideas described in our early study are catching on.