Posts by Cape Romain

May 2022 FOLLY BEACH — Fishermen and beach lovers will have to wait at least one more year before they can soak up the views and make record catches from the new Folly Beach Pier.  The replacement project that started in Oct. 2020 is expected to wrap up next spring. Right now the work is…

August 5, 2021 NORTH CHARLESTON — Construction has begun for what’s expected to be the city’s most scenic bridge. Crews recently began site work for the $8 million Battery Park Pedestrian Bridge at Riverfront Park. Groundbreaking had been delayed due to the pandemic, but workers with Wando-based Cape Romain Contractors now have a barge and cranes…

June 2020 A “city” is how South Carolina Ports Authority project manager Butch Weber characterizes the new Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal in North Charleston. And it’s an apt description. The program to redevelop a shuttered Navy base and dredge spoil disposal basin into a 286-acre international shipping complex involves creating buildings, storage and rail transfer…

December 2019 BEAUFORT, S.C. (WTGS) — Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in Beaufort is getting some renovations to make sure it is still here for future generations. Dozens of people living in Beaufort spend warm afternoons at the waterfront park on Bay Street. However, what many do not know is that the park actually sits on…

April 2019 MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) – The project to build a pedestrian bridge over Shem Creek is one month ahead of schedule, and it all comes as an expansion is made on the original plans. Once complete, the bridge will connect the Coleman Boulevard sidewalk near Tavern and Table to the boardwalk near Mount Pleasant Seafood…

June 2018 It won’t be long before there is access to a parcel of land called Boyd Island from the Saluda Riverwalk near Riverbanks Zoo. A crew from Cape Romain Contractors is putting in two sections of a bridge to the island at the confluence of the Saluda, Broad and Congaree rivers. Mike Dawson, CEO…