Keystone Trade Center
CVDA was retained by Northpoint Development to design the open space master plan for the Keystone Trade Center. The brownfield site was the former home of the 1,800-acre U. S. steel plant. Keystone Trade Center is thought to be the largest Industrial/warehouse park on the East Coast.
The concept for the open space master plan was to create a linked system of walking paths and activity nodes. The new detention and retention basins and the remnant wooded areas host a sizable population of wildlife, and the development is located on the Atlantic Flyway bird migration route.
The intent of the plan was to restore the native plant communities within the open space. The activities nodes varied from bus stops, food truck stops, pavilions, site furniture, sculpture and even display and interpretive areas for historic artifacts such as the steel ingot pictured. Themes for each section of the open space plan were based upon the historic use by the Steel Mill for that part of the site.
Key Factors
Open Space Master Plan
Site inventory and site features review
Brown field Site
On Atlantic Flyway -Migratory Bird Route
Carter van Dyke
A s s o c i a t e s
Pennsylvania Office
40 Garden Alley
Doylestown, PA 18901
New York Office
6850 S Gannett Hill Rd.
Naples, NY 14512
Contact CVDA
(215) 345-5053 | Phone
(215) 345-4324 | Fax
Carter van Dyke, RLA, ASLA
Peter R. Fernandez, RLA, ASLA, CLARB