Working Waterfront sites on the Web
Government and Corporate initiatives to protect Working Waterfront
A Maine Government initiative to support the preservation of the remaining working waterfront land in the state of Maine:
http://www.state.me.us/spo/mcp/wwi/index.php
A community development corporation in Maine that offers low-interest financing to enhance and maintain working waterfronts:
http://www.ceimaine.org/fisheries/workingwater.htm
A news story noting that protection of working waterfront is a key election issue in Maine state government:
http://www.mainetoday.com/elections/2004/legislature/041018boothbay.shtml
A day-long seminar held in Maine titled: “What Can You Do to Save Maine’s Working Waterfront?
http://www.mainefishermensforum.org/REcaps2004/Wwaterfront/Working%20Waterfront.htm
An organization advising on the redevelopment of New York Harbour’s working waterfront:
http://www.waterwire.net/working/port.html
Resources
A company that publishes books on working waterfront and urban waterfront redevelopment:
http://www.waterfrontcenter.org/books/
Working Waterfront as Visitor Attraction
A walking tour of Portland, Maine’s working waterfront:
http://marinerfleet.com/working-waterfront.html
A festival that celebrates the working waterfront of New Bedford, Massachusetts:
http://www.ci.new-bedford.ma.us/tourism/wwfestival.htm
A museum of Tacoma, Washington’s Working Waterfront:
http://www.wwfrontmuseum.org/AboutUs/Mission.html
A news story on a visitor’s reaction to the working waterfront of Portsmouth, Virginia:
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960927/09260133.htm
A feature on the working waterfront in New Bedford’s visitor’s guide:
http://www.rixsan.com/nbvisit/attract/waterfnt.htm
An article about a brochure explaining the working waterfront of Moosabec, Maine to new residents and visitors:
http://www.workingwaterfront.com/article.asp?storyID=20041101
Case Study
A story about a working waterfront in Florida struggling against developers:
http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/flsgp/flsgpm99004/flsgpm99004_part5.pdf
Last updated 5.12.2004