Berkeley awarded $5.1 million to study plan for revitalizing its pier with ferry service

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The award will fund critical state and federal environmental reviews of the $121 million restoration project on Berkeley’s waterfront.

The Berkeley Marina’s historic pier has remained abandoned, crumbling and fenced off for the nearly eight years since it closed amid deteriorating concrete and corroded rebar from years of weathering by San Francisco Bay’s breaking salt water waves.

That award — funded through ACTC’s 2024 Comprehensive Investment Plan, which will allocate a total of $207 million across the county over the next five years — will be matched by city funds in order to cover the projected $10.3 million needed for this phase of preliminary reviews, according to city documents.

In total, the newly constructed pier will offer 32,560-square-feet of space — all of which will be open to the public for general recreation.If all goes to plan, the final plan will be ready for council review and approval by the end of 2024, according to anWhile the City Council has dedicated $40.2 million to the waterfront in the past 15 years, more than $140 million is still needed for improvements to the dock systems, restrooms, roads, parking lots and other features.

The waterfront property’s pier wasn’t always in disrepair. Originally constructed by the Golden Gate Ferry Co. in 1926, the pier helped pedestrians and automobiles reach San Francisco before the service was discontinued in 1937 and the city acquired the structure. Jim McGrath, a Berkeley resident and former Parks and Waterfront commissioner, has been vocal about the pier and ferry plan, particularly with concerns that it will overrun the marina’s parking spaces with ferry passengers.

 

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