Rick Engineering Company worked with five agencies in the North Embarcadero Visionary project. The Plan creates a unified vision for the North Embarcadero area of San Diego. The North Embarcadero lies along the waterfront, roughly between Seaport Village and Lindbergh Field. The five agencies, all with some control over the area, included the City of San Diego, the San Diego Unified Port District, the Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC), the County of San Diego and the U.S. Navy. The study formulated several planning alternatives, then evaluated each alternative’s urban design, circulation, environmental, regulatory and economic factors.

The ability to create a single vision came only after extensive property, jurisdictional, infrastructure, circulation and policy inventories, consideration of financial and political realities, creation of an acceptable implementaion strategy and extensive public meetings. Rick Engineering Company and the Rick Urban Design and Planning provided infrastructure, jurisdictional and policy inventories, proposed both technical and political strategies and prepared a step-by-step program for implementing the vision. The plan, now being executed, includes a reconfigured pedestrian-oriented waterfront, a traffic management plan, and the clustering of buildings along Broadway.

KEY COMPONENTS

• Infrastructure Analysis
• Planning & Urban Design
• Public Outreach
• Cost Estimates