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Driving Question - How can Holland design the downtown waterfront area to best accommodate use for the most people and still retain its core businesses?

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The BRPS students read three articles and explored a website.

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HOLLAND - The city of Holland is asking developers interested in redeveloping the city's James DeYoung power plant site on Lake Macatawa to submit statements of qualifications to the city.

The 17-acre piece of land is a focal point of the city's Waterfront Holland initiative, the community visioning process for the future of Holland's downtown waterfront launched after the retirement of the power plant in 2017.

"The JDY site presents a rare opportunity to develop a large-scale regional mixed-use destination that weaves together downtown amenities and waterfront land with direct access to Lake Michigan," the city's news release said.
More: More: DeYoung land draft vision, guiding principles unveiled City to solicit developers for waterfront
In the first stage of the process, the city is soliciting statements of qualifications for developers, "to prequalify respondents based on their demonstrated ability to complete a development of similar scale and scope and financial capacity."

The city will accept statements of qualifications through June 25.

In the second phase, the city will ask the qualified developers to submit proposals for projects on the site.

The city is also offering the 1.9-acre city-owned property across the street from JDY at the northeast corner of Pine Avenue and 4th Street for optional use in the developers' plans.

The sale or long-term lease of the JDY site to any potential developer will require approval of three-fifths of the city's voters in a public referendum. The land is owned by the Holland Board of Public Works.

Developers are also invited, in the city's request for qualifications document, to consider negotiating a land-swap with one or more of the existing industrial businesses on the waterfront, Padnos, VerPlank or Brewer's.
- Contact reporter Carolyn Muyskens at cmuyskens@hollandsentinel.com and follow her on Twitter at @cjmuyskens.
"As the first major opportunity along the Holland waterfront to advance the goals of the Vision, the JDY Site provides the once-in-a-generation opportunity to set a catalytic precedent for the full-scale mixed-use redevelopment of the Lake Macatawa waterfront and redefine the City's relationship with the water," the document reads.

According to a timeline in the document, the developer shortlist is expected to be determined in late summer and proposals for the land will be due in the fall.

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Holland seeking developers for 'catalyst' James DeYoung power plant site

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HOLLAND - The city of Holland is asking developers interested in redeveloping the city's James DeYoung power plant site on Lake Macatawa to submit statements of qualifications to the city. The 17-acre piece of land is a focal point of the city's Waterfront Holland initiative, the community visioning process for the future of Holland's downtown waterfront launched after the retirement of the power plant in 2017.

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Waterfront Holland was a community engagement initiative between 2018 and 2019 to formulate a vision and framework for the future of Holland's waterfront. Led by the City of Holland and the Holland Board of Public Works, and in partnership with Holland Charter Township, the process took a
comprehensive, inclusive, and transparent approach to gathering public and private input.

Through a year-long series of community meetings, surveys, design workshops, and tours, your ideas and aspirations have yielded a vision statement and a set of guiding principles.

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Waterfront Holland - A Vision for Holland, Michigan's Waterfront

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Waterfront Holland was a community engagement initiative between 2018 and 2019 to formulate a vision and framework for the future of Holland's waterfront. Led by the City of Holland and the Holland Board of Public Works, and in partnership with Holland Charter Township, the process took acomprehensive, inclusive, and transparent approach to gathering public and private input.

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Investigation - The students visited the downtown waterfront to learn about who might use the area. 

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Investigation - The students visited the downtown waterfront to learn about who might use the area. 

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Incubation - What ideas can we generate?

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Incubation - What ideas can we generate?

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Calibration - The students answered the following questions...

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Calibration - The students answered the following questions...

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1. Who uses the downtown area?
2. How can the downtown area be "re-imagined" to better suit the current needs?
3. How can current businesses be supported to better meet Holland's economic climate?

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BRPS students did the following tests!
DOT Test
Storyboarding
Poster Session

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Validation - BRPS students worked with our partner organization - The City of Holland!

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Validation - BRPS students worked with our partner organization - The City of Holland!

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The 6th Grader Students met with Matt VanDyken from the City of Holland to receive feedback on their project.

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Validation - Do the people "like" the solution? 

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Validation - Do the people "like" the solution? 

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The students narrowed their ideas into a solution based on using the data from the three tests. The students used the data to meet with one other group to pitch their idea.

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Storyboarding - Each group created a story board with how their ideas looked for different groups of people. This taught the students empathy.

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BRPS students each got 10 dots. They were able to put a dot on each item they liked in the brainstorming phase. The ideas that got the most dots had the most value to the group.

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Poster Session - Each BRPS group created a poster board to show their final ideas and give a two minute pitch. The students then received feedback from a audience of the their peers.