Retaining Wall Rises at Long Beach Boardwalk Site

Workers started to construct a retaining wall on the south side of the boardwalk stanchions in Long Beach last week.

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The city released a two-week reconstruction schedule that shows the wave break wall, which is designed to prevent or mitigate the kind of damage the city sustained during Hurricane Sandy, will continue this week, from Tuesday to Friday, and ramp piles will be installed at Long Beach and Edwards boulevards during the same days.

The City Council in early April unanimously approved a $44.2 million contract with Grace Industries, a Plainview-based company, to build the 2.2-mile boardwalk, which will consisted of tropical hardwood and, at the center of the structure, a mix of the ipe wood and concrete.

Grace Industries has 210 days from the time firm officially signed a contract with the city on April 16 to build the boardwalk. The contract stipulates that sections of the boardwalk, from National Boulevard west to Laurelton Boulevard and east to Long Beach Boulevard, must be completed in 100 days, said Peter Gerbasi, the vice president of Liro Group, the engineering firm that the city hired to oversee the project.

Grace Industries has worked on projects for New York state and New York City’s departments of transportation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metropolitans Transportation Authority, and Nassau and Suffolk counties.

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