The To­ba­go Coun­cil of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has re­vealed plans for a $60 mil­lion re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion of the Scar­bor­ough wa­ter­front.

The up­grade works in­clude a 2,000-foot long board­walk, mar­ket­place, food court, restau­rants, bars, cafes and en­ter­tain­ment and re­tail shop­ping spaces. The pro­posed board­walk is ex­pect­ed to run al­most the en­tire length of the wa­ter­front along Mil­ford Road.

The pro­posed works are ex­pect­ed to be­gin in Jan­u­ary.

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine re­vealed the de­tails on Sun­day evening dur­ing a meet­ing in the Bethel/New Grange com­mu­ni­ty. The project has been in the works for the past three years and is be­ing joint­ly fund­ed by the State and the In­ter Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank.

David­son-Ce­les­tine said To­bag­o­ni­ans will have a “new and im­proved Scar­bor­ough.”

One key as­pect of the project is that it will un­der­take a green­er ap­proach us­ing both so­lar pow­er and en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly in­fra­struc­ture.

This first phase of the cap­i­tal’s re­struc­tur­ing is ex­pect­ed to take 18 months.

David­son-Ce­les­tine said the PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion has been rolling out a de­vel­op­ment plan for To­ba­go in stages and that the Scar­bor­ough wa­ter­front project was up next.

“This project comes on the heels of the de­vel­op­ment of the ANR Robin­son air­port. This project comes on the heels of 300 rooms that will come to this is­land through an in­ter­na­tion­al brand called the Mar­riott. This project comes on the heels of us want­i­ng to en­sure that To­ba­go is a live­able place; that To­ba­go has the most ro­bust and mod­ernised sys­tems and in­fra­struc­ture, that could take us to a new lev­el,” she said.

“If you talk about ideas and plans and cre­ativ­i­ty and in­no­va­tion, you could find that from our team. Be­cause we are young peo­ple, we un­der­stand what is re­quired to move an is­land’s de­vel­op­ment for­ward, and that is what we are in­tent on re­al­is­ing.”

She added, “We are push­ing ahead. We are chang­ing the look and feel of Scar­bor­ough, but in a way that cap­tures the essence of what we have been sell­ing, which is Live the Cul­ture To­ba­go Style, and Clean, Green, Safe and Serene.”