eDesign Dynamics attended the second community meeting on Maritime Park Phase I this week in Hoboken, NJ. EDD team members Amanda Bayley and Nicholas Parisi spoke with Hoboken Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla and community members, discussing the benefits of living shorelines, how they better adapt to sea-level rise, and how to successfully integrate ecology-driven designs into public waterfront projects.
With landscape architecture firm SCAPE, and engineering team Colliers, EDD is leading the design of one of the first living shorelines on New Jersey’s Hudson shore. The design currently includes a substantial salt marsh and tidal pool complex, resilient shoreline stabilization with a planted riprap edge, and native transitional upland zones.
EDD is also leading the design of a temporary learning nursery where herbaceous and woody material will be grown to acclimate to the site’s microclimates, and ultimately be planted in the second phase of the park’s construction.
