canoe rental area?

CATER: And the ideas keep coming - a skate park, a climbing wall, a farmers market, an orchard of fruit trees and a harvest festival.

This park proposal started in the city's planning office. Scott Kratz is a volunteer, an adviser. His day job is vice president for education, at the National Building Museum. But at every opportunity, he's asking for suggestions for the bridge; holding design workshops with students; going to community meetings and coffees; trying to drum up support, and millions in private money.

KRATZ: I will meet with anybody anywhere, to hear their ideas about the 11th Street Bridge Project.

CATER: The Anacostia is a very urban river. It runs through the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.; through the city, and into the Potomac. It's longbeen a dividing line in the city - not just physically, but economically and racially. On the eastern side, more poverty and less diversity. It's more than 90 percent black. So a park on this bridge would not just be a marquee attraction in the nation's capital. It could be a huge symbol.

KRATZ: We are heading into historic Anacostia.

CATER: We complete the crossing from west to east, at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Good Hope Road.

KRATZ: Unfortunately, like many areas in the urban core, Anacostia has seen empty storefronts.

CATER: Here, we get into the project's core goals and some real complexities: bridging two communities, and spawning new development.

So what are we looking at here?

KRATZ: So we had an artist at the D.C. Office of