North Shore residents have waited for years to see the industrial shoreline transformed.

They may soon get their wish with a possible reimagined waterfront with plans to build homes, create jobs and attract businesses.

Longtime Staten Islander Lisa Barbieri said she’s hopeful the latest promise to develop the North Shore will come through.

“I’m excited about our future for Staten Island,” Barbieri said.

At a press conference on Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams announced the North Shore Action Plan, a $400 million investment into developing a residential and commercial waterfront community, with 20 acres of open public space.

“Our team is really focused on how do we build more? How do explore these beautiful waterfronts,” Adams said.

Barbieri said the answer is building and attracting tourist to the area.

“We are also going to have a vibrant, thriving waterfront. The tourist that come on the Staten Island Ferry ride, they’re going to utilize it and enjoy it, and it will also bring commerce,” Barbieri said.

The plan will develop the shoreline of Staten Island from St. George to Stapleton.

“For many years the residents of the North Shore have been subject to failed projects and broken promises, but with the implementation of this program we will finally have a roadmap for a vibrant waterfront for Staten Islanders to enjoy,” Council woman Kamillah Hanks said.

One big broken proposal, just beyond the ferries near shuttered Pier 1, a decade ago, a 630 foot tall Ferris wheel was planned with a goal of drawing tourist to the shoreline, hopes to build the attraction fizzled.

Now as part of this project, the city said it’s putting out a new request for proposal at that Bank Street site for a terminal building with year round programing and open waterfront space.

Features of the project include about 2,400 units of new housing, half of which will be affordable; the project will add 7,500 jobs; a new public school will be built; the city aims for 30% of commercial spaces to be minority and female owned; and the project will focus on flood resiliency.

“That’s one of the great things to make sure that we can create a waterfront is resilient for the next hundred years,” Andrew Kimball from the Economic Development Corporation said.

During Hurricane Sandy flood waters rose up to 14 feet in Tottenville.

Barbieri said she’s optimistic the empty lots and dilapidated piers will turn into a thriving shoreline.

“I’m a positive thinker and I believe in tenacity, and dreams can come true,” Barbieri said.

Leaders say this project will create an accessible, walkable, connected waterfront.

Officials add the project has a potential $3.8 billion economic impact and is projected to be completed by 2027.