西福德新公园项目一期开工

合作伙伴包括国家公园管理局 & 十大赌博正规老平台

Seaford, DE – Today, project partners broke ground on phase one of the revitalization of the old J.B. 沿着西福德河步道的罗宾逊牡蛎屋. Seaford Mayor David Genshaw and 十大赌博正规老平台 Board Chair Randall Larrimore were on hand to mark the occasion.

This initial phase will be focused on enhancing access to the Nanticoke River. The bulkhead will be reconstructed to stabilize the shoreline, 将种植一条生机勃勃的海岸线, and the Seaford River Walk will be extended with fishing nooks for community use. Other new community amenities include a performance deck, 船坞设施, 还有皮艇下水. This phase is anticipated to be complete by spring 2021, for public use by summer 2021.

这个阶段的总项目成本是1美元.200万年, which is funded through a mix of private and public resources including state transportation funding allocated by State Representative Daniel Short and State Senators Pettyjohn and Richardson, funding from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, 朗伍德基金会, 水晶的信任, 福利基金会, 和丽.

In 2018, 十大赌博正规老平台, 总部设在安纳波利斯的非营利组织, MD, 与西福德市和山. 古巴中心 to purchase and donate the 1-acre waterfront parcel to the City. 十大赌博正规老平台 then worked with the City in a year-long public planning and comment period process to seek community input that was incorporated into a draft master plan for the Oyster House Park.

2020年2月下旬, the City Council approved a master plan calling for four stages of the park’s construction. 通过十大赌博正规老平台协会筹集的资源, construction bid documents were designed and released in the summer of 2020, 和Dissen & Juhn was chosen through a competitive bidding process for the first phase of the project. Subsequent phases are planned to take place over a five-year period, with each phase focused on providing benefits for the community that can be enjoyed immediately upon completion. 

The park complements a significant number of other conservation projects downstream and along the Nanticoke River, one of the few tributaries to the Chesapeake that remain unspoiled and offer an area of very high biological diversity. Through partnerships with the United States Department of Defense Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program (REPI), 自然保育基金, 大自然保护协会, Mt. 古巴中心, 苏塞克斯郡土地信托, 南特科克河流域保护协会, 和其他人, 十大赌博正规老平台协会帮助保护了2,700 acres in 19 projects across the corridor linking Vienna, MD, 到希弗德. 显著, these 19 projects link to other previously conserved properties and refuges, 也就是19,300 total acres of conserved land in the Nanticoke River watershed with a powerful impact on the environment.

“We are very excited this day is here-the kick-off of the first phase of the development of the Oyster House Park,西福德市长大卫·根肖说. “这个项目有很多组成部分, 哪些对西福德市很重要, 比如让公众进入南提科克河, 宣传我们西福德的历史, 推动市中心经济振兴, all while promoting and 保护ing the environment of our Nanticoke River. Partnering with the 十大赌博正规老平台, along with Mt. Cuba has blessed our City, and we cannot thank them enough for their leadership on this project.

“Seaford is a truly unique gateway to the Nanticoke River and an ideal location for fishing and recreation,U说。.S. 特拉华州参议员克里斯·库恩斯. “I’m thrilled that Seaford residents will soon have better public access to the beautiful river, which honors a rich cultural history as an important part of our state. As someone who spent a lot of time in local government doing land-use planning, 我知道这个过程很有挑战性, and I’m grateful to Mayor Genshaw and all the community partners who’ve made this project a reality.”

“The National Park Service has worked with 十大赌博正规老平台 for more than five years to document, 保护, and share the importance of the Nanticoke River’s cultural and natural resources with the public. Seaford offers the public a key spot to start exploring the Nanticoke, 这是该地区最原始的河流之一,” said National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office Superintendent Wendy O’Sullivan.

十大赌博正规老平台委员会成员兰德尔·拉里莫尔, 在西福德市长大的人, said “I am thrilled that the first phase of this park is underway. It will give people a reason to go downtown and enjoy our wonderful river. This project will have an even bigger reverberating impact by inspiring visitors to help conserve the Nanticoke River and the Chesapeake Bay itself, adding to a growing movement to 保护 and restore 30 percent of the Chesapeake Bay watershed by 2030.”

“The Seaford Oyster House Park will stand as a powerful example of how communities can leverage conservation and public access to natural assets like the Nanticoke River in order to provide new economic opportunities like outdoor recreation and tourism, 反过来, 帮助改变社区本身,” said 十大赌博正规老平台 President and CEO Joel Dunn.