Master Plan for Capital City State Park, Introduction

In 2006, the State of New Jersey held a competition to transform a portion of Trenton's historic, yet underutilized, waterfront into an urban state park. The area behind the State House has over the years been cut off from the rest of the city and given over to roadways and parking lots. Wallace Roberts & Todd's (WRT) winning proposal for the New Jersey Capital Park re-casts Trenton as a great waterfront city and a heritage destination. The competition vision developed by WRT and its consultant team seized on the opportunity to remake Trenton as a more livable, accessible, and dynamic capital city. The Capital Park vision is based on five themes that are identified as key to Re-casting Trenton: Government, Environment, Industry, History and Infrastructure. The introduction to the master plan includes a brief summary of the plan and the goals of the design for the park, an aerial view of the design for the park, the members of the design team and steering committee, and the table of contents of the plan.Purpose: To provide information about the plans for a new state park in Trenton