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From working wharves to civic stage: the riverfront's next act

The six-acre Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park opened April 16 on the old Governor Nicholls wharf, linking the Quarter, Marigny, and Bywater to the river.

Claire Fontenot, Neighborhoods reporter · Sep 25, 2026
From working wharves to civic stage: the riverfront's next act
Crescent Park in Bywater, an earlier conversion of industrial riverfront into public space. The Goldring-Woldenberg project extends the idea upriver.