Unveiling the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan

Photos (by Ian Douglas for MWA)

Vision 2020 is a 10 year plan for the city's 520 miles of shoreline. The plan is an extraordinary achievement, with the potential to restore, revivify, and unlock the waters that surround us through greater public access, new economic opportunities, and increased water transport.

"New York City has more miles of waterfront than Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Portland combine. So our water and shoreline is really like a 6th borough...We want to maximize these assets, not at some far off point in the future, but right here, right now."
- NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg

MWA and the entire Alliance worked incredibly hard to see this plan come to fruition. Roland Lewis, MWA President, was present at the Press Release where he and the rest of the Alliance were acknowledged and thanked for their instrumental role in the development of the plan.

"This is a day of celebration - 20 years from now people will be looking back at this as a seminal moment and they will be moving to this city because of this waterfront - to enjoy it, to work on it, to do all sorts of things with it."
- Roland Lewis, President & CEO, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance