Hudson Square is an approximately 30-block district on Manhattan’s West Side. A former hub for the printing industry, the industrial buildings that line its edges are undergoing transformations that range from loft to office and commercial building conversions. Given its proximity to major thoroughfares like the West Side Highway, Canal Street and Sixth Avenue, and its adjacency to Hudson River Park, Pier 40 and the Highline, Hudson Square is an appealing target for many including the Sanitation Department, whose controversial proposal calls for appropriating a substantial amount of an 80,000 SF site for fuel and salt storage and the creation of a multi-story office building. Through Hudson Square Prints Green! New possibilities are imagined without fear or preconception, redefining conflicting needs as opportunities and serving as a catalyst for the transformation of the district’s waterfront into a thriving environment for people and wildlife alike—one that respects the region’s history as both an active printing hub and a former wetlands once covered with creeks and marshes. Through the creation of a floating salt marsh, or salina, a rich new landscape will form a destination with striking seasonal appeal that concurrently fulfills the Sanitation Department’s complicated needs of salt storage in the winter. Along with a system of bridges and planted shade structures that extend like ribbons into the waterfront, the crucial connection to the water will dramatically transform Hudson Square. Essentially an elevated green roof composed of various colors and textures, Map Park unfolds like a giant sheet of paper to create a three-level structure. The proposal dramatically embeds itself into the fabric of the city, as much about claiming the significance of existing ground as it is about making inroads into the landscape and the context that surrounds Hudson Square.