Sakai Seaport

Michael McCall led the Enterprise Development Company's Strategic Design for the Japanese construction company, Shimizu, and on behalf of the the sites owner, Nippon Steel.

The 270 hectare (675 acres) site is located on the coast of Osaka Bay, between central Osaka, Japan, and the new Kansai International Airport.

Sakai Seaport was planned as a complete urban resort and entertainment city, encompassing more than 3 million square meters (more than 30 million square feet) of mixed-use development to be built-out over a twenty year period.

Storyline Urban Design
Key to the plan was the use of entertainment to ignite the development of the vast site; and the use of "story line" urban design to create a new, yet timeless, section of Osaka possessing new age technology and old world charm.

The massive landfill site was broken down into ten distinct, though interwoven, districts. As each district was planned to reflect the natural "evolutionary" process of urban development, the result is not a theme park, but a brand new city with the slightly eccentric feel of the world's great cities.