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While many have wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print, an am­bi­tious plan to trans­form T&T’s eco­nom­ic and in­fra­struc­tur­al land­scape, res­i­dents tucked away along King’s Wharf, San Fer­nan­do, are won­der­ing what’s re­al­ly in it for them. Many hope that Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials will meet with the rough­ly 100 res­i­dents face-to-face to ex­plain the project and hear their con­cerns.

As part of the Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print launched at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre last Thurs­day, the Gov­ern­ment pro­pos­es to trans­form San Fer­nan­do’s wa­ter­front in­to a coastal city. The plan in­cludes re­tail spaces at Plaza San Car­los, a new wa­ter­front ho­tel and con­ven­tion cen­tre, ocean­front res­i­dences, and a mod­ern trans­port hub.

But when Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Old Train Line Road, res­i­dents of the strug­gling sea­side com­mu­ni­ty said they hadn’t even heard about the new plans to turn their coast­line in­to a fu­tur­is­tic hub.