The Seaport Economic Council voted to grant the city $one million dollars to help pay for the redevelopment of the City Pier in Fall River. The money came in this week and will coupled with a $1.6 million dollar MassWorks grant awarded in November as weel as $600 thousand each from MassDevelopment and the City’s Redevelopment Authority.
A portion of the plan is to build transient docking along the west side of the pier to allow boaters to tie up and visit Fall River. The city wants the state to approve the final improvement of Route 79, from The Cove Restaurant to Veterans Memorial Bridge. That will move the roadway to the east and give the city another 10 acres of land along the waterfront for development.
The city took over the pier in the late 1980’s, with the intent of finding a developer to build a restaurant and hotel there. Those plans fell apart though, in the face of regulatory hurdles and the discover of PCB’s in the soil, which as since been cleaned up.
Mayor Jasiel Correia is excited about renovating the City Pier as well as he is about the complete Route 79 project renovation.
“The parcel was taken in the 1980s,” Correia said. “It has been vacant for almost 40 years. It will be good to put it to use.
“We are right there, with development. We are right on the cusp of things. With waterfront development and our location, that is a recipe for success for the city.”
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