Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Visitor center renovations underway, to wrap in 4 months

A rendering of the renovated Riverwalk Visitor Center, a rehab project that will wrap in four months. (Port City Daily/File)

WILMINGTON — A portion of the Riverwalk will undergo renovations starting Monday, Aug. 22. The construction is expected to last through the end of the year.

The projects will cost $278,000 and will see a renovation of the visitor center area along Water Street. Replaced will be deck boards, as well as its roof and the picnic area furnishings removed. There will be new landscaping, decorative overhead string lights, stools and banner poles.

The restroom and CVB tourist booth portions of the building will remain open normal hours throughout the four-month rehab.


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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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