Current Construction Projects
Maritime Office Building Demolition & Refrigerated container Yard Conversion
This $3.23 million capital project consists of demolishing the Maritime Office Building and transforming the three-acre port-owned property into a large refrigerated container yard.
Once the existing pavement is removed, the awarded contractor, West Construction Inc., will build a heavy duty cargo container rated pavement.
The project also calls for installing new exfiltration trenches and storm piping, new high mast lighting, security fencing, fire protection, underground conduit and infrastructure for future refrigerated container electrical plugs.
In order to convert the property into a container yard, the overhead electrical wiring needs to be relocated underground. A Florida Power and Light certified electrical contractor will install and modify underground utility vaults, electrical transformers and a switchgear.
The new refrigerated container yard will allow our largest tenant to better serve our Caribbean market.
The completion date is scheduled for October 30, 2019.
Project Progress
Berth 1 bulkhead replacement
Berth 1 is located on the northeast side of the port, near the Marine Office Complex.
The bulkhead in Berth 1 is the only existing bulkhead structure within the Port of Palm Beach that has not been replaced since it’s original construction in 1976.
Now more than 40 years later, Berth 1 is getting a facelift.
The $4.5 million dollar project calls for replacing about 425 feet of sea wall including installing new bulkhead steel sheet pile, tieback anchors, a concrete cap, marine bollards and fenders.
The construction also includes rebuilding a prop-wash wall to match the existing structure.
Before construction of Berth 1 began, the port proposed relocating coral living in the construction zone.
The Port of Palm Beach worked closely with the Town of Palm Beach and a women-owned consulting firm called Coastal Eco-Group. Divers removed and transported the stony corals greater than 10 centimeters in diameter to their new home at the Town of Palm Beach where they were transplanted in a mitigation reef site.
The project is expected to be complete by December 31, 2019.