Currie Park Redevelopment

Bennco Engineering completed Phase I master planning with Chen Moore and Associates and OLIN for the Currie Park Redevelopment project. A bathymetric survey, preliminary coastal analysis, environmental feasibility concept development, and grant opportunity research were conducted, as well as the preparation of a marina implementation strategy.

Working with the City, Bennco Engineering assisted in successfully securing a $16M grant from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to be used to implement the master plan.

As part of Phase 2, Bennco Engineering provided marine resources surveying, engineering design and construction plans, environmental permitting, and grant implementation support for the in-water work including bulkhead replacement, rock revetment, living shoreline, boat ramp and staging dock repairs/replacement, new overwater docks, piers, boardwalks, and day docking. To meet the project goal while complying with site constraints, a few different living shoreline concepts were implemented along the shoreline. They included a rock sill with pipe planters for mangroves; a concrete planter imbedded into the rock revetment for saltmeadow cordgrass; various sized reef balls for oyster recruitment; and three living shorelines were constructed with clean sandy material, stabilized with a sheet pile toe wall and rock, for planting red mangroves and cordgrasses (smooth and saltmeadow species). The total planting space is 16,400 square feet.