Stick to the people’s preferences for the Delaware Waterfront | Opinion

After years of failed “mega-project” redevelopment proposals back in the 1990s and early 2000s for Penn’s Landing, the William Penn Foundation Board of Directors, concerned that the city would squander its greatest redevelopment asset, funded a citizen-led civic visioning process for the Central Delaware in 2007. Instead of delegating the redevelopment direction of the city’s entire central waterfront to a single developer, the aim was to empower the communities most impacted by riverfront development to voice their opinions, hopes, and desires toward a new vision for the future of the Central Delaware.