In December of 2006, the New Orleans Building Corporation (NOBC) selected the team led by Chan Krieger Sieniewicz / Hargreaves Associates / TEN Arquitectos / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple as the winner of its "Reinventing the Crescent" competition to create the Development Plan.

The team brought to New Orleans not only international acclaim and design excellence but remarkable diversity. St. Martin, Brown & Associates, Kulkarni Engineering, Julie Brown, Carol Bebelle, Moffatt & Nichol, Jim Richardson, and Robinson et al. complete a team that includes African American, Indian American, Latin American, female, male, local, national, international, ambitious youth on the rise and highly-experienced mentors at the top of their professions.

The team provided design and development planning services for the redevelopment of the New Orleans Riverfront from Jackson to Poland Avenue over five phases including: (01) Site Documentation & Analysis; (02) Initial Concept and Programming; (03) Concept Testing (04) Concept Development; and (05) Final Concept Design. The final design was completed in August 2008 and is now available for viewing.

"our perception of space has incredible effects on us.
ultimately, it is about our identity: who we are and why we are.
not a mere matter."
-david hockney