Veterans Park Repairs and Upgrades
Status: Currently Underway
This project includes rehabilitation of the Memorial Wall by replacing the worn and broken memorial bricks with approximately 300 new memorial bricks to be professionally installed by a brick mason. Five bronze military seals representing each military branch will be displayed atop the new memorial bricks. Upgrades and repairs to the Freedom Fountain, the brick paver patio, and the Blue Star Memorial Hwy signage are planned. The old and unused utility poles are to be removed. The new memorial bricks were funded by a Memorial Brick Fund overseen by the Waterfront Partnership group.
Phase II of the Marine Street Stormwater Retrofit
Status: Currently Underway
Phase I of this project is funded by a $462,000 grant from Northwest Florida Water Management District and involves removing, repair and replacing existing storm-water utility lines & culverts to more efficiently handle storm-water runoff along Marine Street, and installation of a rain garden in what is now the round gravel “pit” next to the boat ramp. Phase I is designed to eliminate all the storm-water “ponding” along the southern end of Marine St, including the large pond at the entrance to the boat ramp “turnaround”. The Community Redevelopment Agency partnered with the WMD to fund Phase II of the project by allocating up to $150,000, which will include repair of the decorative streetlights along Marine St, resurfacing of Marine St & SE Ave E, and repair of storm-water runoff issues affecting buildings on Marine St between SE Ave B and Hwy 98. The project should take just over 2 months to complete.
The 4th Street Boat Ramp Project
Status: Currently Underway
This project includes parking design & layout improvements, boat ramp resurfacing, dock expansion, and a sidewalk from Hwy 98 to the future location of a Big Bend Scenic Byway educational kiosk which will be situated at waterside near the dock.
Hwy 98 at West 4th Street Crosswalk
Status: Currently Underway
This project involves the FDOT approved construction of a marked pedestrian crosswalk located on US Highway 98 that will connect the Veterans Park to the planned 4th Street Boat Ramp sidewalk project.