Crews Begin Work on Expanded Riverwalk

By: Barbara Herring | WSAV-TV
Published: March 25, 2008

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An $8.8 million project is transforming the shoreline of the Savannah River. The city is expanding the brick walkway that helped turn River Street into a tourist destination.

If you’ve driven along President Street or General McIntosh Boulevard in the past few days you probably saw the big yellow cranes out over the river.

Workers from The Industrial Company or TIC are busy pulling out what is left of the old wooden dock that used to front this now abandoned portion of riverfront. They are replacing the wood with steel pilings that will extend the shoreline and give support to a new brick walkway.

The project is funded by $8 million of your State of Georgia tax money. Project Superintendent Chuck Hucks says they’ll be finished next winter. “A year, so, next February we should be done, February of 09.”

Eventually the new Riverwalk will run in front of new hotels and homes as part of the Savannah River Landing project but so far no housing has yet been built on that site.