After fits and starts caused by an overly active hurricane season, work on the $1.7 million Christiansted boardwalk extension is set to start.
Work on the downtown harborside walkway was to have begun in mid-October after the active part of hurricane season passed. But a spate of storms, including Hurricane Lenny, a rare November gale, pushed the project back until the first week of December, according to the Department of Public Works.
DPW Commissioner Harold Thompson said the $1.7 million project would be funded by the Federal Highway Administration. The contractor is R&R Caribbean.
The construction contract provides for a six-month project, though Thompson said he hoped to have it completed sooner.
In July, the Senate Committee on Planning and Environmental Protection approved a Coastal Zone Management permit for Phase 1 of the boardwalk project, which will extend the walkway from where it ends in King’s Alley 1,450 feet west toward the Holger Danske Hotel.
Phase 2 would extend the boardwalk from the Holger Danske to the seaplane building near Watergut. A Government House official has said the design for the second phase is about 90 percent complete and close to the point of submitting it for funding.
