Why Marina Center?
Marina Center will transform the environmentally
degraded Balloon Track and improve Eureka�s environment, community and economy.
Here are a few specific ways Marina Center will be good for the city of Eureka,
its residents and the entire North Coast region:
For A Better Environment
- Marina Center will establish an 11-acre coastal wetland preserve at Clark Slough,
resulting in a publicly accessible environmental feature covering nearly a third
of the total development.
- The environmental preserve will include restoration of a major portion of the historic
Clark Slough wetlands. The initiative will add to Eureka�s public access open space
and will restore the area to a natural condition it has not known for 100 years
or more.
- The development will meet all local, state and federal environmental
clean-up standards as it rehabilitates a polluted �brownfield� according to EPA
definitions, and do so with private funds -- not taxpayer dollars
For A Better Community
- Marina Center will transform the Balloon Track area, a long-abandoned eyesore that
has become a magnet for drugs, vagrancy and crime.
- Marina Center will provide an expanded new home for Eureka�s children�s Discovery
Museum
- More than $1.8 million will be generated annually by property and sales taxes for
Eureka services including public safety, education and recreation
- Community access to Marina Center�s Clark Slough wetlands habitat (currently prohibited
by law) will include a perimeter walkway or boardwalk with a kiosk and interpretive
signage at vantage points along the path pointing out opportunities to see wildlife
or examples of native plants. This pedestrian trail will connect with a pedestrian/bike
trail along the existing railroad right of way, which will in turn connect Marina
Center with downtown Eureka.
For A Better Economy
- More than 1,000 jobs will be created with Marina Center�s mix of office, retail
and light industrial employment opportunities. The project will also create much
needed service-sector jobs (such as security, landscaping, janitorial and maintenance,
etc.) All of these jobs, in turn, will support other local jobs through the spending
of workers' wages.
- Marina Center will establish new retail and office space for local businesses to
expand and stay in Eureka
- As the development�s anchor retail tenant, The Home Depot will create good-paying
jobs with benefits for full and part time employees as the store provides consumers
with a new level of product choice and value
- Development of the Balloon Track will revive it as a contributing and useful part
of Eureka, resulting in a boost for the local economy and revitalization of the
area south of Old Town.
![Pedestrian Bike Path View 2](images/pedestrian-bikepathview2-sm.jpg)
Marina Center Site Plan
![Site Plan View](images/SitePlan-View-sm.jpg)
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