Out at Euclid Beach, the parks system has a $1-million pier renovation in the works. Demolition of the current pier will begin this fall and in its place a new 220-foot-long pier (80 feet of which will be over the water) will be constructed, according to the PD.
It looks to have a full go-ahead, but permits still need to be acquired from various entities (Coast Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Ohio EPA) and councilman Mike Polensek has concerns about how the pier affects the western part of the property.
“All I’m asking is that we can have access to the land west of the pier,” Polensek told the paper. “The lakefront is precious to this community.”
On the western front, the Metroparks also has upgrades in store for Edgewater, and those have already begun.
Right now construction equipment dots the coast as crews remove the old restrooms and bathrooms. When finished, Edgewater will have a new kids play area, a 75-seat diner, souvenir shop and beach store inside a new two-level beach house.
The 12,000 sq. ft. beach house will also feature a public viewing deck on the second floor, according to NewsNet5.
This article appears in Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2016.
The planned beach house looks cool, sort of deco and retro-spiffy, but a souvenir shop and beach store inside? Seriously? For what…the bustling tourist trade?
Chuckles the Clown
This is excellent news on both fronts. The more we invest to make it pleasant to access the lake the more the region will benefit.
Excellent news on both fronts. The more pleasant we make access to the lakefront the more the region and the 1 million yearly visitors that come to Edgewater will benefit.
Great news. Make it even better by ensuring local food trucks have access to the beach and pier.
The Edgewater building plan looks outdated.
You say outdated, I say retro-spiffy. It’s designed to look Art Deco, and like it’s been there for a long time.
Chicago’s lakefront has a beach house, along Lake Shore Drive, that’s probably been there since the Thirties or the Forties. It’s designed to look like the original “Queen Elizabeth” did.
But it’s made of white concrete or stucco…and it even has portholes and stacks like the old ocean liner had. Google “North Avenue Beach” if you want to see what it looks like.
This plan looks more like something you’d see on South Beach (Florida), and that’s probably the general idea.
Chuckles the Clown
I agree that it looks outdated and tacky. It looks like something that was built a long time ago that the city would be tearing down right about now and spending millions on to fix up.