DAYTONA BEACH — The Beach Street riverfront, the corridor that was home to the city’s earliest businesses and homes, and for several decades was the town’s main retail hub, could be entering a new era.
City commissioners unanimously decided at their meeting Wednesday night to go after $432,353 in grants that will pay for design and permitting for river dredging, day docks and an esplanade north of the International Speedway Boulevard bridge.
Those wanting to see dramatic improvements in the downtown hope it’s the first step toward the area becoming home to new hotels and condos overlooking the water, bicycle and walking paths, botanical gardens and open-air plazas filled with vendors.