Positioned alongside the remaining smokestacks of Bridgeport’s soon-to-be demolished power station, Palimpsa uses housing density to preserve the city’s historic vertical markers, transforming obsolete infrastructure into civic monuments rather than erasing them from the skyline. The project treats the South End as a palimpsest of industry, shoreline, demolition, and memory, arguing that Bridgeport’s past should remain visible within its future. Through flood walls, sponge landscapes, markets, play spaces, and community infrastructure, the proposal reclaims the contaminated and flood-prone ground as a resilient public waterfront. Rising above it, the tower aligns itself with the smokestacks, allowing residents to ascend past the industrial forms that once defined the city’s horizon. Palimpsa replaces erasure with continuity, using housing, public space, and preserved infrastructure to project a future that is distinctly Bridgeport.