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Baltimore has an amazing waterfront and is King of Waterfront's in the metro area. However, D.C. is building multiple waterfront projects and will connect them with National Harbor and Alexandria's planned waterfront upgrade by water taxi transit. Who will have the best Metro area waterfront in 2020?
SW Waterfront
Poplar Point
Yards Riverfront
Capital Riverfront
Buzzard Point
Last edited by MDAllstar; 12-27-2010 at 02:14 PM..
All 5 of D.C.'s waterfront and riverfront developments will connect to National Harbor, Georgetown, and Alexandria by Water taxi for easy fast transit:
National Harbor (Existing)
http://www.washingtonian.com/page_dbimages/14168/National%20Harbor.jpg (broken link)
Alexandria Waterfront Plans
Georgetown (Washington Harbor)
Current Water Taxi Routes (This map will double by 2020)
Last edited by MDAllstar; 12-27-2010 at 02:38 PM..
Bmore's waterfront is much better than DC's right now. If they build all of that stuff, DC will be a beast. But Bmore will still have more charm because of the longevity and historic nature of it.
National Harbor is a joke. Connecting to there is meaningless, imo. There's nothing there but a few overpriced restaurants.
It would be really neat to be able to get to the nationals stadium from alexandria by water taxi instead of metroing in/out of the city. It's going to take a lot to really revitalize that area though.
Baltimore definitely has the head start. DC, for all its waterfront property, isn't really capitalizing on it. Even in Alexandria, the action isn't on the water, it's a mile or so up the street from it.
Yeah, DC has miles and miles of waterfront on the Potomac and Anacostia that they should have developed years ago. I must admit that I do like all of the plans though. DC will be something to see in about 10 years with all the light rail, H street, NOMA, and Navy Yard development coming online. The recession has set the city back but plans are moving forward.
Baltimore also has Harbor east, and the westport water being built as we speak. And its all in the city limits.
I posted pics on Inner Harbor East. Westport looks great. It will be interesting to see how the three Baltimore Waterfront area's in the Baltimore Metro Area stack up to the 8 D.C. waterfront areas.
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