City gives a sneak peek of new Ocean Beach Pier design

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — On Friday, the City of San Diego released a few glimpses of what the new Ocean Beach Pier could look like via X, formerly known as Twitter.

The post included designs of the pier from three different perspectives. The city released three designs and took input from the public last year to help with their final concept, which will be unveiled Saturday during a meeting from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Liberty Station Conference Center.

View a slideshow of the newly released renderings below.

The event will be the fourth workshop in a series surrounding the Ocean Beach Pier Renewal Project.

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“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be in on this, designing the pier that’s going to go there,” Denny Knox said.

Knox is executive director at Ocean Beach Main Street Association and one of the original stakeholders in the community to try and find a path forward for the aging pier.

Once it was determined the pier had reached the end of its life, the city called on people like Knox to form a task force.

“Making sure that we had as much input as possible and it’s been very successful,” Knox said.

They got other local residents involved in a series of workshops to help determine the design of a new potential Ocean Beach Pier.

“Wider, longer, it’s definitely going to be taller,” Knox said.

Knox says she’s sworn to secrecy, but she has seen the full plan and believes people will be very pleased.

“We were all sort of gob smacked when we were watching the first presentation to our task force. We were like wow they really did listen to the people.”

The design concept is the result of more than 3,000 surveys and more than 600 people attending previous workshops.

Following the event, a new online survey will go live for people to continue to provide feedback on more specific details like lighting on the pier.

The pier officially opened in 1966 as the longest pier on the West Coast. However, damage due to high surf and storms has led officials to close the aging structure several times for repairs. The most recent closure was in October.

In 2019, the pier was closed for five months due to a repair project costing about $430,000, according to the city.

The city has said it has spent approximately $1.7 million in repairs over the past five years.

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