Waterfront Park (many pictures)

[China_cat]

The Navy base here in Charleston closed some time ago. We're finally getting some use out of the facility. First among these is the Riverfront Park, located where the base Officer's Housing was located.

Coming into the park


A long view


One of the sculptures at the Navy Base Memorial


The lone sailor


A left over from the shipyard days


Sculpture exhibition...although I have to wonder about this one. Two rectangular slabs of rusted metal (probably from an old ship), welded at a 90 degree angle, with a round hole in each piece. But it made for a nice photo experiment.

[NV Whino]

1. Nice to see the land put to good use

Out here at the old Vallejo shipyard they are building yet more McMansions that no one can afford.

[China_cat]

2. That park is nice

but there's so much more to the base that's just going to waste. Not only that but there's a whole section of military housing that was Navy (including a school) that was supposed to be turned into low income housing/homeless family housing over 10 years ago and is still sitting empty and rotting. This upsets me and there doesn't seem to be anything anybody can do about it.

This facility (Hunley Park) would have housed a lot of Katrina victims in comfort and safety and the government still claims it as belonging to them so they could have designated it for that purpose, easily.

[NV Whino]

3. Same thing happened to the Presidio in San Francisco

Could easily have been turned into low-income housing. But no one wanted the low-income people to have that valuable and very pretty land.

[Maestro]

4. Very nice

It's nice to see that an old base turned into something pretty. The old naval base in Grand Prairie, Texas is an eye-sore!