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The
Oregon International Port of Coos Bay owns and operates the
Charleston Marina, the Charleston Marina RV Park and the
Charleston Shipyard, all of which serve various market
segments in the community – commercial fishing and seafood
processing, recreational fishing and boating, tourism and a
growing retail and commercial sector.
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Charleston Marina
Master Plan
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The Port adopted a master
plan for the development and management of Port-owned
property and marine related activities in the Charleston
area in the early 1990s and has updated that plan in early
2007 to reflect changing
economic conditions and shifts in facility usage during
recent years.
Port
staff worked with a private-sector-based planning
management team to gather community input from users of the
facilities, local area residents, other public agencies and
various advocacy and community support groups in the
Charleston area to develop a comprehensive and flexible plan
that will produce the greatest benefit for Charleston and
Oregon’s Bay Area.
Port staff
also completed an integrated financial plan in May 2008 for the
proposed Charleston developments.
Project
Status:
Completed. Phase I Improvements
include:
Resurfacing outer basin with parking improvements, rip-rap
repair, resurfacing Eel Avenue with parking improvements and
establish a paved area behind Seahawk Seafood with drainage.
Phase II Improvements:
Completed – Inner basin restroom building replacement
with restroom and shower facilities. Pending –
Paving, parking, sidewalk and curbing enhancements to the
area around the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology’s (OIMB)
interpretive center at the corner of Guano Rock and Boat
Basin Road. The Port was also successful in receiving an
award on the behalf of Coos County for a Transportation
Enhancement (TE) grant from the Oregon Department of
Transportation (ODOT). This project provides for
approximately 2,400 lineal feet of curbing, sidewalks,
landscaping, lighting and storm drain improvements to Boat
Basin Road from OIMB to approximately Davey Jones’ Locker.
The Port will provide the construction costs of the OIMB
project as match to the TE grant, along with additional
matching funds from Coos County. The Port is currently
working with Coos County and ODOT to establish a schedule
for project
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