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SSP 2004 PROJECT SCOPE
Participants in this year's workshop will prepare a master plan for
downtown Nassau’s harbour and Bay Street retail district. The workshop will
address the re-development of the commercial shipping area and the 
old city of Nassau to enhance its community, historic, cultural, architectural
and touristic appeal. The goal will be to position downtown Nassau as an
attractive retail district for residents and visitors, cruise ship portal,
government complex, and livable 24-hour urban tropical neighborhood.
The workshop will also focus on the major open space and tourist gateways along
Bay Street leading in and out of the downtown. These include but are not
limited to Arawak Cay, Eastern Parade Grounds, and Fort Montague.
The entire project site covers a 3.5-mile stretch of waterfront east-west along
Bay Street from the Arawak Cay area, location of the largest fort in Nassau, to
Fort Montague, a historic fort and park on the northeastern edge of New
Providence.
The workshop will examine both natural and man-made site systems for the
larger site including transportation, open space, ecological, and tourist
connections. A thorough analysis of existing site systems will provide a
framework for future site strategies. By the second week of the program,
students will have developed a clear vision for the site and real-world
development strategies. These strategies will be realized through concrete
design, planning, and environmental solutions.
There are four main geographical areas that the workshop will
focus on:
Focus Areas
Our Approach
EDAW’s Summer Student Program in Nassau, The Bahamas will use a
multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving for the historic Bay Street
Harbour District.
The students’ challenge will be to make concrete, implementable recommendations
while identifying immediate, interim and long-term economic opportunities for
Nassau residents.
Our approach includes talking to key stakeholders and understanding their
sometimes disparate opinions, talking to the “experts”, conducting an extensive
site analysis, and building alternative solutions. A planning framework will be
established under which priority focus areas are identified, with an emphasis
on developing projects 
along Bay Street that can act as a catalyst for development.
The Summer Student Program is intended to be a transparent and open process,
not only to government representatives and stakeholders, but also to the
community at large, who will be invited to participate throughout the process,
providing input to and comments on the students’ findings.
The Nassau Harbour Bay Street Regeneration will be a project that
is respectful of the Bahamian cultural and economic context and uninhibited in
its creativity, but resulting in recommendations that are firmly grounded in
reality. We believe that this is an exciting opportunity for our firm, the
participating students, and for the Nassau community.
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