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Futuristic floating swimming-hole project Plus Pool (+ Pool) has officially been given a city-approved location to drop anchor slightly north of the Manhattan Bridge, in the water adjacent to the Lower East Side, Curbed reported<\/a>.\u00a0This watery venture just scored a formal street address in the middle of the East River.<\/p>\n

The project was first conceived in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt started as a simple idea: Instead of trying to clean the entire river, what if you started by just cleaning a small piece of it?\u201d states a project history on Plus Pool\u2019s official website<\/a>. \u201cWith this thought in mind, four designers proposed + POOL \u2014 a floating plus-shaped pool in the inner harbor of the NYC waterfront, designed to filter the very river that it floats in through its walls, cleaning more than 600,000 gallons of water every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With approval from the city, a 2013 Kickstarter campaign raked in over $300,000, which funded a prototype that tested in the Hudson River in 2014. After various Economic Development Corporation paperwork was filled out, Plus Pool was moving along smoothly<\/a> until the pandemic ground progress to a halt.<\/p>\n

This month, though, marked a new beginning for the exciting project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an official confirmation to succeed with the next steps for the project,\u201d Plus Pool managing director Kara Meyer told Curbed on Friday. \u201cWe have a home. Mayoral candidates<\/a> are talking about it . . . We are going to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next big hurdle, Meyer continued, is regulation and funding \u2014 to the tune of $20 to $25 million.<\/p>\n

STORY FROM New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Futuristic floating swimming-hole project Plus Pool (+ Pool) has officially been given a city-approved location to drop anchor slightly north of the Manhattan Bridge, in the water adjacent to the Lower East Side, Curbed reported.\u00a0This watery venture just scored a formal street address in the middle of the East River. The project was first conceived in 2010. \u201cIt started as a simple idea: Instead of trying to clean the entire river, what if you started by just cleaning a small piece of it?\u201d states a project history on Plus Pool\u2019s official website. \u201cWith this thought in mind, four designers proposed + POOL \u2014 a floating plus-shaped pool in the inner harbor of the NYC waterfront, designed to filter the very river that it floats in through its walls, cleaning more than 600,000 gallons of water every single day.\u201d   With approval from the city, a 2013 Kickstarter campaign raked in over $300,000, which funded a prototype that tested in the Hudson River in 2014. After various Economic Development Corporation paperwork was filled out, Plus Pool was moving along smoothly until the pandemic ground progress to a halt. This month, though, marked a new beginning for the exciting project. \u201cWe have an official confirmation to succeed with the next steps for the project,\u201d Plus Pool managing director Kara Meyer told Curbed on Friday. \u201cWe have a home. Mayoral candidates are talking about it . . . We are going to move forward.\u201d The next big hurdle, Meyer continued, is regulation and funding \u2014 to the tune of $20 to $25 million. 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