"A recent focus of efforts to improve the city's historic waterfront has been Winter Island, the much-used but still rather forlorn-looking peninsula at the entrance to Salem Harbor.
"Following months of study and discussion, Boston-based planner Steven G. Cecil rolled out his firm's vision for the property at a meeting of The Salem Partnership on Friday.
"The plan is conservative in some respects, emphasizing recreation over the commercialization of the site, but ambitious in others, such as suggesting the construction of a wind turbine at the southwest corner of the property (facing the power plant) that might help fund needed improvements that, if fully implemented, could cost up to $10 million...."
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