Mystic — Three and half years after a fire ravaged the Seaport Marine property, the owners of the 11-acre Washington Street marina property now plan a $13 million redevelopment. If approved, the project would not just replace what was destroyed in the fire, it would see major improvements to streets and sidewalks, improving public access and modernizing infrastructure. A four-alarm fire tore through the 11-acre marina property in November 2022, destroying a warehouse and home but leaving the 122 boat slips and facilities mostly untouched. The marina along the Mystic River is also home to the popular Red 36 restaurant, which was undamaged by the fire. “It’s really just an improvement of the facilities,” Seaport Marine General Manager Harry Boardsen said Tuesday.
The plans, received by the Planning Department March 17, include 2,100 linear feet of dock space, adding electrical vehicle chargers and 20-foot-wide sidewalks that will extend pedestrian access farther downriver from Mystic River Park. “We’re going to be able to carry that whole riverwalk even further down into Seaport Marine, so when you come across the drawbridge, you’ll be able to actually walk down the riverfront,” he explained. Plans also show that the project will fill in some missing sidewalk sections along Washington Street, which would complete the span of sidewalks running from Cottrell Street to Broadway Avenue and add some sidewalks south of Washington Street on Willow Street. “It’s definitely modernization and doing some nice things that the public will have access to,” Boardsen said. He said the work also includes putting in higher capacity electrical service and he hopes to be able to relocate some of the utilities underground. Boardsen explained that the impetus behind the project was to increase dock space for the marina’s transient docking patrons. The number of available slips in the 2,100 linear feet is not fixed, allowing the space to accommodate multiple sizes of vessels.

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