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RIVAL FOUNDATIONS Summer Fieldwork
Summer came to Riverside the way it always did, all at once and bringing heat. By the second week of June the remediation crews had marked out the entire eastern parcel in bright orange flags, and the site looked less like a cleanup than a very strange kind of garden, rows of test plots and sensor stakes and tiny hand-lettered signs explaining what each patch was meant to do.Rosalind had turned twelve the week before, and her only birthday request had been a proper field notebook with waterproof pages. She now carried it everywhere, tucked into the back pocket of a pair of work pants Sienna had been forced to hem twice. Every weekday morning at seven thirty, Damian drove her to the site, handed her off to Dr. C's crew, and then drove to his own office looking, Sienna thought, more like a proud parent than a billionaire."She's very good," Dr. C told Sienna on the fourth day, finding her at the trailer with a clipboard. "She logged the moisture readings for the whole north plot yester
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS Dr. C
Dr. Priya Chandrasekaran arrived at the Riverside site on a gray Monday morning in steel-toed boots and a hard hat she had clearly owned for a very long time. The firm's Priya, who had been working with the name for nine years, took one look at the visitor and announced that they would need to sort out the nicknames immediately."I'm Priya," said Priya."I'm Priya," said Dr. Chandrasekaran, shaking her hand with a grin. "We'll figure it out."They figured it out within the hour. The firm's Priya became Priya, and the visitor, by popular vote of a crew that did not enjoy confusion, became Dr. C. She seemed to like it. She had spent twenty-five years cleaning up the messes other people had left in the ground, and she had long ago stopped caring what anybody called her as long as the work was done properly.Halcyon Environmental had been Sienna's third choice, not her first. The first firm had quoted a number that made Reyes put his coffee down. The second had wanted to excavate and haul
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS What the Ground Remembers
The first real trouble arrived three weeks later, and it arrived in a manila envelope.Foster Engineering, the geotechnical firm Sienna had hired to survey the corridor, sent over their preliminary soil report on a Thursday afternoon. Sienna was in the middle of a call about window sourcing when Priya appeared in her office doorway holding the envelope with both hands, the way you might carry a bird that had flown into a window."You should look at this," Priya said. "Before you do anything else."Sienna finished the call quickly and opened the report. She had read dozens like it over the years, dense with tables and boring in the best possible way. This one had a section near the back, highlighted in yellow by someone at Foster who had clearly not enjoyed typing it. Lead. Arsenic. Elevated levels of petroleum compounds along most of the eastern parcel, where a tannery and then a metal foundry had operated for most of a century.She read the summary twice, then set it down very carefu
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS Listening First
Sienna went to the first Riverside listening session without a single drawing in her bag. Priya had stared at her when she announced it, the way she used to stare at the old coffee maker, as if some basic piece of equipment had decided to stop cooperating."No renderings," Priya said. "Not even a rough massing study.""Not even a napkin sketch," Sienna said. "If I show up with a picture, they'll spend the whole evening reacting to the picture. I want them reacting to the question."The question, she had decided, was simply what Riverside needed. The council had approved a corridor, a strip of old warehouses and failing storefronts along the water, but nobody had yet asked the people who lived beside it what they wanted it to become. Sienna had watched the Legacy District teach that lesson the hard way, and she had no intention of paying for it twice.The session was held in the basement of a church on Mill Street, a low room with folding chairs and a coffee urn that looked older than
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS Riverside
The formal proposal for what would eventually become known as the Riverside Corridor Initiative, a considerably more modest undertaking than the Legacy District but no less significant to the struggling neighborhood it would serve, reached the city council's desk nearly eight months after Whitfield's original suggestion, and Sienna found herself, presenting alongside Damian and Devon, drawing on every lesson learned through the Legacy District's own long, demanding journey."We're not proposing to simply replicate what we built downtown," she told the council, walking them through a proposal specifically tailored to Riverside's own distinct character and needs. "This corridor has its own history, its own community, its own particular challenges. I want to be clear that whatever we build here needs to reflect Riverside's own identity, not simply import a template from somewhere else."The council's reception proved considerably warmer than the Legacy District's own contentious beginnin
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS A Rare Quiet
The following months brought a rare, genuine quiet to Sienna's professional life, the Legacy District fully complete and thriving under its ongoing advisory committee, the firm's daily operations running smoothly under Devon's capable, distributed leadership, and she found herself, for the first time in longer than she could clearly remember, without a single major project demanding her constant, immediate attention."I don't quite know what to do with myself," she admitted to Damian, one ordinary Tuesday evening, both of them home earlier than usual for what had become, over the preceding weeks, an increasingly rare occurrence. "I keep waiting for the next crisis, and it simply isn't arriving.""Maybe that's allowed to just be a good thing," Damian said, smiling at her evident restlessness. "Not every season of life needs an active crisis to justify itself.""I know," Sienna said, though she recognized the truth of his gentle teasing even as she voiced her own discomfort with the unf
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