ResilienCity Park
Hoboken’s largest park opened in 2023 as a model for integrating public open space with green infrastructure and climate resilience solutions.
The award-winning ResilienCity Park in Hoboken, NJ, represents an innovative and holistic integration of flood mitigation strategies, green stormwater infrastructure systems, and park amenities—built around the triple bottom line approach of environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
AKRF served as the prime consultant leading the overall project team and engineering design. As the largest urban installation of green infrastructure in the state of New Jersey, the park contributes toward Hoboken’s Green Infrastructure Strategic Plan to integrate resiliency into public space in response to ongoing climate change and increasingly large storm events.
Additional project partners included OLIN, nArchitects, Silman, TEND, Studio Ludo, OLA, Tillet, Lynch & Associates, and VJ Associates.
Industry Honors
2025 ASCE Innovation in Sustainable Engineering Award
2025 ASLA Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter Award of Excellence: General Design
2024 New Jersey Alliance for Action Award
2023 New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers Project of the Year
2023 AWRA New Jersey Section Excellence Award
Integrated on-site stormwater management solutions
The 6-acre park captures and stores one million gallons of stormwater on site in a below-ground storage tank regulated by a wet weather pump station, while providing almost another million gallons of storage in surface green infrastructure elements integrated throughout the park’s programmatic spaces.
“This park opening is a significant milestone in our ongoing efforts to create a sustainable and resilient community, serving as the largest resiliency park in our great state and a model for the rest of the county.”
Extensive project management and stakeholder coordination
AKRF managed a team of more than ten subconsultants and coordinated extensively with the City of Hoboken, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, North Hudson Sewerage Authority, and construction management team on the project.
Industry honors for innovative design
ResilienCity Park has been honored by the New Jersey Alliance for Action, New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers, AWRA New Jersey Section, ASLA Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter, and American Society of Civil Engineers.
