The $16 million demolition and reconstruction of the Flagler Beach Pier into an 800-foot concrete structure began in July 2025. The following construction update, provided by Flagler Beach government’s Katherine Monroy, outlines the construction activity and potential disruptions to drivers and pedestrians in the coming week.
As State Road A1A is slightly deflected around the construction zone in front of the pier and for a few blocks south (to the Anchor Restaurant), lane striping will occur overnight between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. on July 13 (Sunday). Watch for construction signage, flaggers, traffic cones and diversions, illumination devices, and other construction-related activities. Use caution when driving in the area.
Most of the parking zone from the pier down to South 5th Street is expected to be blocked off by next week.
The Pier Project schedule for coming days as submitted by the contractor, Vecellio and Grogan, is as follows:
- Thursday, July 10: Traffic Control Devices arrive on site. Anticipate using one or two parking spots by the pier for storage. Will be stored outside of the clear zone.
- Friday, July 11: three light plants will be delivered that will be used for night operations on July 13. Another two parking spots will be needed to store these by the pier.
- Sunday night into Monday morning July 13-14: Lane striping and traffic control operations take place, establishing the work zone for the project. Traffic will be limited to a flagged, one lane, two-way flow for the duration of the striping operation. Remainder of all parking spots within the work zone will be claimed.
- Monday through Wednesday, daytime, July 14-16: Delivery of construction equipment, construction roll-off dumpsters. The site preparation for trestle installation and crane assembly begins. A trestle will be built parallel to the existing wooden pier and will serve as a base to demolish and rebuild the pier.
- Thursday and Friday, July 17-18: Crane assembly, with eight loads of crane components coming in in batches of four per day. Trucks will stage near the City of Flagler Beach Maintenance shop area until workers are ready to bring them onto the job site. There will be a small mobile crane to be used as an assist crane for crane assembly.
Visit cityofflaglerbeach.com or Facebook.com/CityOfFlaglerBeachFlorida/ for further updates.
John says
Great. Even less parking now.
Bo Peep says
Another timely project yay!
Deborah Coffey says
It just seems to me that people are pretty arrogant thinking they can stop an ocean and hurricanes by using concrete but, they keep voting for people that don’t believe in science and climate change. Good luck spending all that money and labor.
JimboXYZ says
Nobody should complain/whine about this, been long overdue from 2016 when those storms really started to systematically demolish/erode the pier. Beach parking will be on the side streets subject to ordinances ?
Just me, A1A needs to be closed to any traffic there, pedestrian, cyclist, mo6or vehicle. Any disrepair for accidents & damage to vehicles, the State of FL is protected from lawsuits. Anyone insisting on being there is really taking their own health & safety, not to mention any vehicle property they own into their own financial responsibility. I would expect the side streets to go from 4 way stops to 2 way stops East & West. speed limits strictly enforced for all residential street directions. There’s just a smarter way of doing this & if past experience is any indicator, that won’t happen.
If you don’t live there, don’t have to be there as an out of county tourist, then that’s the best solution for traffic. Speed limit on A1A is limited to 25 mph as it is after that nut job had his collision for speeding thru Flagler County in a recent year. Obviously with construction going on, it should be reduced to 5-10 mph as a max, only because we have impatient one’s that have theri own form of mental illnesses. Those Friday afternoon/evening & weekend bar/pub crawls ? Those are nothing but enough drunks in harm’s way. I’m certain we’re going to have those that insist on challenging being there, we always seem to have those village idiots. Not sure if any local businesses are influencing any open sidewalks & A1A form a single lane ? Margaritaville seems to have accepted that fact that their 1st year of operation from the grand opening will be influenced by the pier rebuild and anything else required to protect the beach & A1A from erosion. They are on board with that as a Flagler Beach partner. As FL-100 is the only bridge at the South end. the residential roads from the high bridge are obvious traffic relief roads. And I’m certain the construction of the parking and rezone will be the taken advantage of to establish the parking meters & Vision of Flagler Beach going forward for creating a bottle neck of a speed zone there. The middle island median & palm trees on SR-100 are happening there, from the last light at the bridge to A1A. Know that’s going to happen. Don’t be that citizen/resident that is too stupid to figure it out ?