CamdenProject - Mainside
Jerome Peloquin (via Google Docs)
Thu, Nov 12, 4:33 PM
to me, larry
aquaponikus@gmail.com has attached the following document:
Camden Project - Mainside
Project Objective: Design, build, & operate a sustainable urban food production site that will provide comprehensive community economic development, create food, water, and energy security, along with decent paying jobs
Purpose / Scope
Provide a short overview of our intentions regarding the development of the Baltimore, Harbor West site to include a discussion of site size, planned development and use.
PURPOSEFUL PARTNERS THAT PRODUCE
The Alliance Partnership is a triple bottom line organization with a strong social justice and equity commitment, as well as, solid economic drivers. Our Baltimore initiative, The Urban SEA Project will truly “kick-start,” Baltimore’s emergence as a rising influence as an emergent sustainable and resilient city on eastern seaboard.
We are an experienced team of professional managers, engineers, and real estate property developers with the expertise necessary to create, design & develop a large-scale, truly sustainable urban community and food venue. The Urban Sea Project will showcase Baltimore as a national urban center of innovation, community inclusion, and design excellence.
Project Vision
Our vision for The Baltimore Urban SEA project functioning as the keystone of a resurgent BALTIMORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RIVERFRONT REVITALIZATION PROJECT adjacent to, and on the littoral of the west bank of the Patapsco river. The salient feature of the enterprise will be the creation of an revived aquacultural ecosystem this will serve as the economic engine to secure and drive positive and inclusive community development in the depressed value housing surounding the site including new “green tech,” employment. The key driver will be an innovative and exciting new “venue,” a new Baltimore commercial development pioneered by Lehr Jackson Assoc.
Key Planned Features of the Baltimore Urban SEA site:
- The economic driver that will both fund site operations and provide much needed jobs for the community, urban food production, - will simultaneously create jobs and food security. It will support the local economy and bring a captivating cultural icon to Baltimore that will spur thousands of local businesses and careers.
- The Urban SEA will be a vertically integrated food and distribution center. It will be vertically integrated. The following commercial enterprises will be part of the site:
- Hatchery - Seafood processing - sales/distribution, - prepared foods products, - recycling of all waste into fungible products
- The high-end Aquaculture and Hydroponic system will produce first quality seafood protein and fresh locally grown greens and vegetables.It will also attract visitors from multiple surrounding locales and even states.A bio tech, clean green,
- The Aquaponics facility, will produce !,000 metric tons of Bronzini, a high value Mediterainian Sea Bass, The companion Hydroponics system (which will grow 24/7, 12 mos each year and will produce large quantities of micro greens and basil - together ending food deserts and providing food security for the city of Baltimore.
- Patapsco Reclamation Project The Urban SEA will employ a completely natural process that will remove many, if not all of the pollutants from the river and re oxygenate the water, then enabling the resurgence of native flora & fauna. This will also contribute to the interest in the venue as an ecotourism attraction.
- Environmental STEM Center - The site will also serve as an environmental center providing knowledge and support of green development STEM education for local K-12 systems.
- Community Engagement & Support - Establish an outreach, employment, K-12 STEM participation, community kitchen, SNAP, Community Supported Agriculture, etc.
- Eco Tourism Venue - The new facility will be designed as an ecotourism venue and draw visitors for surrounding MD and adjacent states as well.
MEANINGFUL MASTER PLAN
The Baltimore Urban SEA Project will create excitement by linking current and planned developments in a seamless master plan. The team will create a comprehensive technology-driven commercial sector that will integrate and enhance the key elements of a 'new normal,' an economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially just initiative, making Camden a national demonstration project and a guide for future urban community economic development. Instead of building the community first, we will create new jobs and municipal revenue by becoming a change catalyst for the existing community.
As a major urban food producer and distribution point, Camden will attract other productive non-polluting enterprises as part of the new master plan. New streams of income, and revenue generation as well as escalating real estate values will dramatically increase the social capital of the area. In addition, the team is proposing to bring biopharmaceutical production and water remediation of Delaware, as well as streams, and creeks to the design.
DESIGN THAT DELIVERS AND DELIGHTS
Baltimore, a destination venue - Lehr Jackson, the national award-winning developer (currently creating a mixed-use habitat at The Battery in Fishtown Philadelphia) and Principal in the redevelopment of Union Station, Suburban Square, and Grand Central Station in NYC is the chosen development partner. Given the space available, and as food is a theme of the project, the team plans to invite and integrate a number of world-class restaurants, cultural exhibits, and diverse entertainment venues. Some office and residential properties as well as workforce housing are envisioned as potential partst of the project and will be designed as environmentally sustainable and esthetically pleasing elements that proactively impact the negative perception of 'gentrification”.
REGENERATIVE RIVERFRONT RESTORATION
In Summary, In order to ensure environmental sustainability coupled with excellence in execution the Alliance Partnership envisions a zero-carbon producing project and community that is committed to being water, food, and energy independent. We are essentially proposing a restoration of the original ecology of the west branch of the patapsco. This will (as noted) include a restoration of the original flora and fauna, along with a bioneered adaptive reuse consistent with current transformative models that permit both humanity and the natural ecology to co exist in a comfortable space that is both esthetically and commercially viable.
Estimated Land Use etc
5 Acres (approx)
20 year lease or outright purchase
Contingent upon engineering and land use permits & regulatory approvals (state & local)
Cost per Acre
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