Steve Maun of Leyland Alliance LLC and Andres

Steve Maun of Leyland Alliance LLC and Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company led a week-long charrette in early February that produced a design for 30 acres of waterfront land in Newburgh, New York, a distressed Hudson River city of 28,000, about 60 miles north of New York City. The plan would help Newburgh recover from the demolition carried out in the 1970s as part of a less than successful urban renewal program. Mayor Nicholas Valentine expressed satisfaction with the mixed-use proposal, which includes ideas for a pair of flatiron buildings that would serve as a gateway. Among the ideas discussed in the charrette was a light rail line from the waterfront to Stewart International Airport in New Windsor.