Over, the water walkway experience, all of the vegetation, that is out there will pretty much be removed and replaced and it will clean up the site and make it more appealing and safer for the users to walk through. And enjoy. And next, is moving north cranco park and this is 9acre park that we have been working for about two years on the Community Planning process. This is the latest iteration where we were taking the site which was a site and opening it up for a park use and it is generally between the streets, and the program developed and been opened against a mixed green and where we bring up the site to the adjacent roadway and create a lawn that could be used for multiple purposes. And rehab iting slip way four and creating a hard scape and a plaza area and a space that could be used as itheater, and rehab taiting 109 and 110 and creating a yard space that could be used for picnicking and gathering and possibly concessions and then we have what we call the maritime fields which
Where it exat the extends close to the ship. That will be a piled in structure and so there will be a series of piles. All wait around . There will be at 9 different locations where each of the fender are and those are offset from the face of the wharf and connected by a brace back to the wharf itself and so those fenders in turn, or those piles in turn, support the floating fenders, okay. Okay. The effect of moving these fenders upward is that the existing shore power system cables are not long enough. And this is a ceremony and 2010, showing our first hook up to one of the princess ships, the blue structure in the center is the dabit system that supports the power cables which are the black cables hanging down, and connecting through the door on the ship on the lefthand side and so these cables have to be extenlded in length and the dabit system itself, at the top where there is a horizontal beam has to be extended to provide the reach over to the ship. And we estimate the cost for t
Its absolutely beautiful. The Bay Front Park shore line is has really opened up that park from the boulevard for people to use all of these projects really connect people with the water front. And they are very important and without the support and davids leadership, they would not have happened. I know that you will all worked hard to get to 2012 bond. Im hoping that you can find some other money to do the north east work plazas so we dont have to spend our bond minute on that and we can move it back down to the southern water front to help finish up crane copark and then the other project that have been so long in planning but really, thank you david. Thank you. Are there any i Public Comment . David i gist wanted to tell you that you did a very great report. Great thorough and im going through all of the project and everything that you worked on and im totally impressed this is very good work. Thank you. Ditto. Very very good work and im really excited about the silos. Im really exc
Retail leasing port policy that allows us to proceed on this and so im hear here to request the approval of the First Amendment as read by the commissioner secretary. This is for an extension of the andre bow din least [spelling . ] located in the octogon building there in fishermans whof and they are offering to extend it in exchange for Capital Improvements and return 50,000 per year com additional renne and improve the Visitor Experience at the who have and take advantage of the new plaza that we just completed and pier prom iniad and [spelling . ] and they are essential to the positive experience of the whof is the improving of the bathrooms and the background of least in december 2010 the port staff came to the commission to request approval for a sevenyear least with andre bow dean backto renovate the octogon building and that was approved here by the commission and then they proceeded ahead and invested over 350,000 into that facility and really improving the functionality of it
Good afternoon. Rick and sarah are off, im eva pilgrim. A crash on the northeast extension this morning involving a halfdozen vehicles caused big detours during rush hour. Union carpenters are protesting outside of the Philadelphia Convention center today. The big story on action news at noon is the closing of showboatatlanta. Caesars made the announcement this morning that the casino will be shutting its doors at the end of the summer. The loss of thousands of jobs is just the latest blow to the economy in a. C. Action news reporter, Annie Mccormick, live how the side of showboat with more. Annie . Thats right. Caesars finally made the announcement this morning after months of rumors swirling. And last night the union, one of the major unions in town did also hear the news. Caesars announcement says showboat will close in august losing more than 2,000 jobs in atlantic city. To me it is crazy. They show the numbers, were not do so bad like other casinoses. Many employees are baffled, m