City leaders backed a $26 million plan to fix the storm-wrecked Naples Pier. The project has removed the concession stand from the plans to focus on building a tougher structure. Workers will tear out and rebuild 460 feet of damaged sections.
“It’s not so much what we’re proposing, it’s the stopping and starting of the review process with those agencies,” Tim Hall, from Turrell Hall & Associates, told Council during a June 16 workshop per Gulfshore Business. “We lose our place in line. When we do that, we go back to the end.”
The work will stretch across 18 months. Just clearing away the old pier could take up to six months. Before any work starts, officials must secure multiple permits…