Port St. Joe is divided by vacant post-industrial sites where a paper mill and a rail line use to thrive. The old paper mill site is coastal to the west, and the old rail site sits central in the city, spatially segregating North Port St. Joe and the rest of the city. The North Port St. Joe neighborhood is a historically black community that settled in the area in the 1940s to work at the St. Joe kraft paper mill. The neighborhood currently faces issues of stormwater flooding, housing subsidence, pollution, and a lack of complete infrastructure. The coastal Brownfield site was once the kraft paper mill site, it is located less than a mile from the North Port St. Joe neighborhood. This Brownfield site stands between the neighborhood and the coast.

SITE: Port St. Joe, Florida

TYPE: Brownfield remediation + Park Design

DATE: 01/2022

TEAM: Eliza Breder, Master of Landscape Architecture Thesis

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