Marine Street Boardwalk Repair
Status: Budgeted, not yet complete
This project involves repairing/replacing deficient the boardwalk along Marine Street and is scheduled to start after completion of the Marine Street stormwater retrofit project.
Park Equipment
Status: Budgeted, not yet complete
This project proposes purchasing decorative benches and trash receptacles for use within the CRA District, picnic tables for the Marine Street Pavilion, recycling trash receptacles along Marine Street, a sitting bench to be constructed on the 12th Street Fishing Pier.
Repairs to Marine St Pavilion and fishing pier
Status: Budgeted, not yet complete
Repairs to Waterfront Partnership dockage
Status: Budgeted, not yet complete
Stormwater management and repairs to alleyway between Hwy 98 & SE Avenue B
Status: Budgeted, not yet complete
Resurface NW Avenue B between NW 3rd Street and Ryan Drive
Status: Budgeted, not yet complete
Pave right-of-way for off-street parking
Status: Budgeted, not yet complete
Southwest half block of NW 8th Street, between Hwy 98 and NW Ave. B and northwest half block of NW 7th Street, between Hwy 98 and NW Ave. B
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.
12th Street Boardwalk and Sidewalk Connector Project
Status: Completed
This project was designed to provide public access from Carrabelle’s main sidewalk system to the 12th Street Fishing Pier. It included sidewalk construction along NW Avenue B and boardwalk construction along NW 12th Street. The project, which began in June 2015 and was completed in August 2015; cost $46,343.
World’s Smallest Police Station Repair
Status: Completed
This project was initiated to repair the iconic phone booth along US Highway 98 which is marketed as the World’s Smallest Police Station. Repairs included replacing the plastic dome atop the phone booth. The project was completed in March 2015 at a cost of $200.
Welcome Park Renovations
Status: Completed
This project purpose was to renovate the existing triangular public parcel along US Highway 98 into an attractive welcome park that will house one of two Big Bend Scenic Byway educational kiosks. The park renovations included landscaping and concrete work. The project began in April 2015 and was completed in August 2015, at a cost of $25,000. The project was completed in coordination with a Florida Department of Transportation landscaping project along US Highway 98.
Resurfacing Project along Avenue B from US Highway 98 to Marine Street
Status: Completed
This resurfacing project involved 250 yards of paving along Avenue B, two sections of SE 1st Street, and Hwy 98 ingress/egress at the Express Lane. This project was completed in September, 2015, at a total cost of $106,736.
Holiday Light Decorations
Status: Completed
Thirty six (36) new holiday light fixtures. These utility pole decorations are placed along Hwy 98, and Tallahassee & Marine Streets and were ordered in two phases with a total cost of $19,181.60.
