Jennette’s Pier will be a family oriented educational and recreational fishing pier.  It will feature a 1,000 foot long fishing pier, a 16,000 square foot pier house and public bath house.  The pier house will have a tackle shop, and educational classroom and large multi-purpose room on the second floor.  The upper floor will accommodate large meetings, school groups, conferences, dinners and receptions.

Three wind turbines located on the pier will help power the facility.  Solar Panels, geothermal heating and cooling and gray water reuse plumbing systems are also among the sustainable green building components featured at the facility.

Jennette’s Pier will educate visitors about the oceans, and it will inspire appreciation and conservation of North Carolina’s aquatic environments.  The pier will also be a state of the art recreational fishing facility.

The pier and pier house are aiming to be LEED certified at the level of Gold.  The LEED certification process is a national ranking system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for qualifying the level of sustainability and green building methods.

The project is expected to be completed in the Spring of 2011.

May 22nd was a wonderful day in Nags Head and Dare County.  The North Carolina Aquariums offically broke “sand” for the rebuilding of Jennette’s Pier.  Over seven years of planning culminated with Governor Beverly Perdue, Senator Marc Basnignt, Representative Tim Spear, Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Dee Freeman, Nags Head Mayor Renee’ Cahoon, Dare County Commissioner Chairman Warren Judge and many other elected officials and local citizens turning a shovel of sand to initiate this project.

These photos are representative of the days activities.

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