Developer wants iconic sign for D.C. fish market

The developer of D.C.’s Southwest Waterfront says the one thing wrong with the fish market on the waterfront’s north end is that visitors don’t know it exists. The team of PN Hoffman-Madison Marquette wants to change that by building a landmark sign for the market similar to the Domino Sugar plant sign at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

“We want the fish market to stay how it is — the same messiness, the same crazy parking scheme,” said Stan Eckstut, a consultant and principal of Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects. “[But it’s missing] an icon really to announce to people about this place, that we are welcoming people to D.C.”