The City of San Diego has finally conceded that no bandaid can fix the Ocean Beach Pier and it -- as is -- will never reopen.
The Union-Tribune announced it was "the end of an era for a crumbling Ocean Beach icon."
The 58-year-old pier won’t reopen, after an engineer’s report found that stabilizing recent damage would be too costly. Instead, the city will keep moving forward with efforts to reimagine the pier’s future in the longer term and hopefully replace it.
“Due to the overall cost, timeline and feasibility of (stabilization) options, the city has decided to leave the pier as is,” city officials said in a news release Friday [August 23].