Camden Waterfront Master Plan

The new headquarters for American Water at One Water Street is the centerpiece of our plan for the Camden Waterfront, a vibrant, mixed-use community with pedestrian-friendly streets and a network of open spaces that will reconnect downtown Camden with its historic riverfront. The five-story building will provide a long and low backdrop to a new riverfront park. A four-story-high transparent atrium, illuminated by a skylight and crisscrossed by upper-level bridges, will frame views through to the park and the Philadelphia skyline across the Delaware River. The building's metal-and-glass facades will recall the site's industrial past, boldly expressing through transparent glass curtain-wall the traveling stair that will facilitate face-to-face interaction throughout the dynamic workplace within. A lantern at the north end of the building will signal a gathering space, adjacent to the building's fifth-floor training and conference facilities and opening to a large roof terrace. At night, both the stair and the lantern will glow, giving the building a strongly identifiable profile from across the river. A large-scale sign atop the building, a statement of corporate and civic pride in this important setting, will likewise be legible from across the river, its scale and frankly expressed scaffolding again recalling the site's industrial heritage.