Preliminary plans to start construction on the Scipio Creek Renovation Project will be on display at 4:30PM on Tuesday, June 7, at City Hall – 1 Bay Avenue – Apalachicola.
A workshop will follow at 5:00PM to discuss the plans prior to the City Commission regular scheduled meeting at 6:00PM.
The display will include new construction plans for the boat repair yard with an indoor repair facility/office/storage, an open-air market, new restroom facility, and an ice house facility for future use.
The city is using a $1.855 million dollar grant from the Economic Development Administration, along with $484,596 from a Community Development Block Grant and $200,000 out of its own revolving loan program to fund the project.
The $2.5 million dollar project is scheduled for completion in early January 2012, and is slated to create up to 44 new seafood related jobs.
In additional $350,000 dollars has since been allocated toward the project by the Florida Department of Agriculture to relocate the barge used to replant oysters in Apalachicola Bay just outside the basin.
The barge relocation is something long advocated and discussed over the past several years by city officials, the shrimpers at Scipio Creek and the original Waterfronts Committee.
The allocation can only be used to cover the expense of design, engineering and construction related to relocating the barge.
Jim Waddell, with Inovia Consulting Group out of Tallahassee, is the project engineer charged with engineering and overseeing the entire project. Collaborating with Inovia on design and renovation is engineering firm Preble-Rish, Inc., out Port St. Joe and Architect Mark Tarmey’s 4M Design Group also out of Tallahassee.
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