Mill City Museum and Minneapolis Riverfront Take Top Honor Award; Oakland and East Bay Win Planning Award

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 15, 2004:

The winners of the Waterfront Center's 18th annual "Excellence on the Waterfront" awards program will be announced at the Center's annual conference at the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisc., by jury chairman Alex Lifschutz, director, Lifschutz Davidson, London U.K. Serving on the 2004 jury were Michael Dawson, director, The River Alliance, Columbia, S.C.; Sylvia McLaughlin, Waterfront Action, Berkeley, Calif.; Robert Searns, project development consultant, Littleton, Colo., and George Stockton, president, Moriyama & Teshima Planners, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The 12 awards are listed below by category.

• Top Honor Award: Project
• Top Honor Award: Planning
• Planning Honor Award
• Project Honor Award
• Clearwater Citizen's Awards
• 2004 Awards Jury

Top Honor Award: Project Joint Award to Mill City Museum and Minneapolis Riverfront District, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Submitted by Thomas A Meyer, principal, Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd., Minneapolis, and Nina Archbal, director, Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, (for Mill City Museum); Charles T. Lutz, deputy director, City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic Development, and Jon Gurban, interim superintendent, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (Riverfront District), Minneapolis, all Minnesota.

Top Honor Award: Planning Joint Award to Oakland Waterfront Trail, Bay Trail Feasibility and Design Guidelines, Oakland, and Eastshore State Park General Plan, San Francisco Bay, both California. Submitted by Kerry Jo Ricketts-Ferris, City of Oakland, and Jacinta McCann, EDAW Inc., San Francisco (for Oakland); Stephen Hammond, Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC; Ruth Coleman, acting director, California Dept. of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento; Pat O'Brien, general manager, East Bay Regional Park District, Oakland, and Brenda Buxton, project manager, California Coastal Conservancy, Oakland, (for Eastshore), all California.

Planning Honor Award National Anpin Harbor Historic Park, Tainan City, Taiwan, Republic of    China. Submitted by the Tain-Tsair Hsu, Tainan City Government and Prof. Ming-Hung Wang, Department of Architecture, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. Ashbridge Bay Treatment Plant Site Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Submitted by Mark Rupke, Water and Wastewater Division, City of Toronto, and Mary McIntyre, architectsAlliance (note: lower case "a" correct) and Diana Gerrard landscape Architecture.

Project Honor Award Category: Environmental Protection and Enhancement Northwest Maritime Center "Demonstration Dock," Port Townsend, Washington. Submitted by Dave Robison, executive director, Northwest Maritime Center, Port Townsend, Wash., and Craig Curtis, principal, Miller/Hull Partnership, architects, Seattle, Wash. Category: Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse The San Francisco Ferry Building, San Francisco, California. Submitted by John Long, SMWM, and Byron Rhett, Port of San Francisco, both San Francisco, California. Beerline Neighborhood, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Submitted by John Vetter, Vetter Denk Architects, and Michael Wisniewski, Dept. of City Development, both Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Category: Parks, recreation Millennium Park Recreation Core, Kent County, Michigan. Submitted by Roger Sabine, parks director, Kent County Parks Department, Grand Rapids, and Eric Lyons, president, O'Boyle, Cowell, Blalock & Associates, Kalamazoo, both Michigan. Corvallis Riverfront Commemorative Park, Corvallis, Oregon. Submitted by Michael W. Zilis, Walker Macy Landscape Architects, Portland, and Jon Nelson, city manager, City of Corvallis, both Oregon. Hudson River Park, New York City, New York. Submitted by Connie Fishman, president, Hudson River Park Trust, and Han-Padrom Associates, LLP, both New York, New York. Category: Residential False Creek North/Concord Pacific Place -- Beach, Roundhouse and Quayside Neighborhoods, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Submitted by Larry Beasley, co-director of planning, City of Vancouver, and David Negrin, Concord Pacific Group Inc. both Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Clearwater Awards Named for the citizen's group working on the cleanup of the Hudson River in New York, this award is for grassroots citizen's initiatives or other public interest actions. Penn's Landing Forums, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nominated by Harris M. Steinberg, executive director, Penn Praxis, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

The 2004 Jury

Alex Lifschutz, Jury Chair
Director, Lifschutz Davidson, London, England

Michael T. Dawson
Director, The River Alliance, Columbia, South Carolina

Sylvia McLaughlin
Waterfront Action and co-founder, Save the Bay, Berkeley, California

George Stockton
President, Moriyama & Teshima Planners, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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