Frozen Fisherman Access
by Scott Olsen
Title
Frozen Fisherman Access
Artist
Scott Olsen
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
The idea for Reef Point Marina was started in 1973 when the City Council under Mayor Olson started to purchase lakefront property with the goal of creating the Reef Point Marina, Festival Hall, and Festival Hall Park. Previously the lake front consisted of a car dealership, a trunk factory, and a manufactured gas plant with gas storage tanks and a large coal pile.
In 1982 a collaboration was made between the City of Racine, Racine County, and local business' in an effort to bring people and business back downtown after Regency Mall was built, luring people to the west side away from downtown and leading to the closing of local small businesses.
Spurred by SC Johnson and Sons, 8 major local business and industries worked together to create an organization that would turn the downtown blight around. This led to the creation of the Downtown Racine Development Corporation, known as DRDC. The DRDC was led by Bob Gibson who was the corporate real-estate manager for SC Johnson.
Early on the DRDC had three goals to accomplish to be successful in their mission:
Open a full time office and staff it with professional people dedicated to Downtown Racine.
Seek out professional help to identify development opportunities for Downtown.
Seek Development funds, from the privet sector
Ground work for the Reefpoint Marina began in the spring of 1985.
A study was performed by Warzyn Engineering Inc. company out of Madison Wisconsin along with, Baird and company out of Ottawa Canada to design the Marina that would include over 900 available slips and break water that would be able to stop any large waves coming from the east and from the north during stormy days.
Construction began with the creation of what would later be named the Christopher Columbus Causeway. Over 18,000 truck loads were used to bring in nearly 350,000 tons of stone to create the breakwaters, the causeway, and land mass that today hosts the Reef Point Brew House and Marina offices.
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