Destin Harbor Redevelopment Plan
Preserving and Enhancing the “World’s Luckiest Fishing Village”
Destin is a popular beach resort and fishing village on the Florida panhandle. With an average of 748,000 overnight visitors each year, the City of Destin has embarked on a redevelopment plan to preserve and enhance the unique qualities of the Destin Harbor—home to Florida’s largest charter fishing fleet and the “World’s Luckiest Fishing Village.”
Tetra Tech is providing conceptual planning, design, and engineering and construction-related services for a multi-year capital improvements program in the 400-acre Destin Harbor District. This $90 million program includes a public park and plaza, roadway improvements, land acquisition, and boardwalk improvements in the first $15 million phase (Phase I) scheduled to commence construction in Winter 2009.
Project highlights include:
- Improving public infrastructure to encourage public access to a hidden resource that not only sets Destin apart from most coastal communities, but has established the identity of the City and region.
- Developing several different design options and evaluating the feasibility of each with respect to public benefit and interest.
- During the conceptual design, Tetra Tech led the coordination of multiple areas of expertise, as well as the consensus of numerous public and private interests, including the general public, through a series of nine public meetings over 10 months. The adoption of the conceptual design successfully accomplished a goal that had eluded the City for the past 15 years.
The Destin Harbor Redevelopment Plan was recently featured in an issue of Condo Owner magazine, where the plan is described as the first in decades to have “broad community support.”
“This harbor plan had what previous [two] plans
over the years did not: widespread consensus.”
- Capt. Kelly Windes
Destin City Councilman
Destin Log, December 29, 2007 |
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