On November 14, 2007, before nearly 1,500 citizens assembled in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Penn Praxis presented the results of a year-long civic engagement process to create a new vision for Philadelphia’s Central Delaware Waterfront.

A wide range of competing interests and intense opinions about the future of the seven-mile stretch between Oregon and Allegheny Avenues made for a difficult and sometimes fractious year of planning, but ultimately, the process allowed Philadelphians to work through those issues and arrive at a new vision for one of their greatest assets: the Central Delaware Waterfront.