The Mills Corp., a real estate investment trust with waterfrontprojects in Boston, Baltimore and Miami, is proposing 250,000-sf ofoffice space, a 100,000-sf YMCA facility, 120,000-sf of"recreational retail" space and 80,000-sf of cafes and restaurants."Recreational retail" is referred to as stores that offer some typeof recreation in addition to selling product, like an outdoorequipment store with a rock-climbing wall.

Chelsea Piers' plan would cost around $100 million to developand would feature a field house, ice rinks, bowling, an extremepark that will offer inline skating, a ropes course and rockclimbing, totaling more than 500,000-sf, according to DavidTewsbury, executive vice president for Chelsea Piers, who likenedit to the company's facility on the Hudson River in New York. SanFrancisco-based Western Athletic Clubs, which was originally goingto submit its own proposal, has partnered up with Chelsea Piers tobuild a new health club on the proposed site.