City of Eureka wants your ideas for the boardwalk between C and F Streets

The City of Eureka is embarking on a process to gather public feedback regarding concepts for
development for the area behind the boardwalk, between C Street and F Street. The project
area is encompassed by the boardwalk on the north, the C Street Market Plaza on the west,
Waterfront Drive (1st Street) on the South, and F Street Plaza on the east.
During the last week of July, the City will be hosting a series of events and workshops to gather
public feedback. On Monday (7/27), the City will host a workshop at the Wharfinger building at
5:00pm. The workshop will include presentations of the site’s history, analysis of the site’s
constraints, explorations of the site’s opportunities, and discussion. On Tuesday, the City will
host public site tours. During the site tours, members of the public will have the opportunity to
walk the site with professional architects and City officials to learn about the site and to provide
feedback. Anyone interested in attending a site tour should meet at the foot of C Street at
either 9:30am or 5:00pm on Tuesday (7/28). On Wednesday and Thursday, the public is invited
to attend one of four design workshops during which everyone will have the opportunity to
work with professional architects to draw their visions of the site. The design workshops are at
the Wharfinger Building on Wednesday at 3:00pm and 5:00pm and on Thursday at 9:30am and
11:30am. Finally, on Friday (7/31), the City will host a Presentation of the Final Concepts, which
will include several professional drawings reflecting the public’s visions.
This is a phenomenal opportunity for Eureka. The area adjacent to the boardwalk is among the
most valuable properties the region. We should all be grateful to those who developed the
boardwalk the C Street and F Street plazas, and the surrounding blocks of Old Town. We owe it
to those previous generations to develop something great on this site. We want help from the
community to determine what this site could become. This is the community’s opportunity to
establish a vision for the Eureka Boardwalk properties.
Contact: Rob Holmlund
707.441.4163
rhomlund@ci.eureka.ca.gov