Future Norton Plaza along the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail

I believe this is at the south end of the Wharf development between M and P Streets SW along the Washington Channel of the Potomac.The Anacostia Riverwalk Trail will use the Promenade in the front and a trail currently is on the east side of this plot from the Titanic Memorial at O, past the Thomas Law House, to 6th Street. It looks like that will remain.

According to SWLQTC, a building permit was just issued for this.

park elements include plantings, pergolas, a water feature, play mounds, pathways, seating areas, an access road for the Harbor Patrol, and a plaza. The plaza will be named after DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton - the section of the park between the access road and the Wharf promenade. 

Construction on Waterfront Park should begin later this year and should last about 11 months, with delivery scheduled sometime in 2016 after the new church/condo buildings are complete.

I would like it better if it were named for this Norton. 

 

Update: Here's a site plan to put the plaza into perspective, a secondary bike route is along the waterfront.

 

Comments

[paytonc]

It's between M and N, on the parking lot across from the dinner-cruise boats. The dinner cruise terminal is at lower left in the rendering, the police pier at the lower right corner. And no, the river's never that color.

[washcycle]

But it will be. Yeah, I hedged by going to M and P, and since it looks like the police pier is between N and O. Maybe it's between M and O.

[WK]

I wish they wouldn't name things after people who are still living. There's still time for them to do something so embarrassing that the subject has to be renamed.