The timeline is still in question but Brian McAllister, president of McAllister Towing that operates the Bridgeport to Port Jefferson ferry, says it’s full steam ahead to relocate the service from the Downtown terminal to a new East End facility across the harbor.
From Gary Larkin, Westfair Business Journal:
“The plan is to have a larger terminal building than what is there now” (at 1 Ferry Access Road), McAllister said. “The bottom line is the ferry we have now has been there for 70 years. Plus, such a project would qualify for state funding.”
So far, the ferry boat company has hired the world-renowned infrastructure consulting firm AECOM to draw up plans for the new terminal, McAllister said. AECOM provides professional services like planning, design, engineering, and construction management for projects in transportation, buildings, water, energy, and the environment.
McAllister’s company cleared another hurdle in the ferry project when it was permitted to run utilities to the Seaview Avenue site. “That will take about a year to get the utilities there,” he said.
The plan to move the ferry terminal to Barnum Landing dates back to 2013 when Barnum Landing II LLC (McAllister Towing) purchased the Seaview Avenue property for $2.63 million from Coastline Terminals of Connecticut. The new home for the Bridgeport ferry terminal is at the former Turbana Corp. site. McAllister’s company purchased the former Dolphin’s Cove Restaurant & Marina in 2023 for $3.3 million, according to city property records.
McAllister doesn’t want to put a definitive timeline on the construction of the new terminal just yet. “It will take a long time,” he said. “But it will create a lot of jobs. We are excited about that.”
15 years later
exactly…….everything that ever gets done take 20-30 yrs Congress bridge……the theaters are going on 50 plus just a damn joke …………lol…..cant forget Steel point that’s going on what 30?
If some state/federal madness allows and facilitates the construction of the Bridgeport-Smithtown Bridge, the Port Jefferson Ferry will become a greatly diminished novelty, and the new terminal building won’t be a tenable asset for the company — if it can survive at all, at any level…