Project RiverWay Reports
Project Riverway Report: Summer 2007
Project Riverway takes place during the University of Georgia’s summer semester. Each session focuses on a different region of the river. To date Project Riverway has gone from Columbus, Georgia/ Phenix City, Alabama to Chattahoochee, Florida. Students participate in the project for course credit and/or internship credit. They begin by generating creative ideas and designs for communities in the region as a whole. Next, multi-disciplinary final projects are developed.
Project Riverway Report: Summer 2008
The third year of Project Riverway brought the students and faculty across state lines into the Florida towns of Chattahoochee and Apalachicola. As we changed states, the Chattahoochee River became the Apalachicola River as it flows out of Lake Seminole, and in both communities, students looked at opportunities for community redevelopment, from downtown streetscapes to riverside parks to a riverwalk along the Apalachicola Bay.
Project Riverway Report: Summer 2009
The fourth year of Project Riverway launched from the banks of the Apalachicola River with myriad opportunities before the assembled team. Revitalizing downtown Chattahoochee, with its historic storefront facades, improving opportunities for pedestrian movement, and providing alternative transportation modes were addressed, along with wayfinding, signage, and additional recreational options for residents and visitors alike. Just across the river in Sneads, downtown restoration, recreational amenities, and the adaptive reuse of the former port authority docks quickly became the focus that will build stronger links between these two quaint towns. As Lee Garner, Chattahoochee’s city manager told us, “The river doesn’t divide us, it binds us.”
