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Architects outline Navarre Beach boardwalk proposal; parking garage concept prompts cost and use questions
Summary
STOA Architects presented a multi‑component Navarre Beach boardwalk project — a coastal education and visitor center, retail buildings, a food‑truck plaza, pavilion and elevated boardwalk — and a civil‑engineer concept showed an optional multi‑level parking garage that would raise capacity but also add large costs and design tradeoffs.
Architects and engineers from STOA Architects and Legacy Engineering presented a concept plan to the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners on July 21 for a multi‑use boardwalk complex at Navarre Beach that would combine an education and visitor center, retail tenant buildings, a food‑truck plaza, an open‑air pavilion and an elevated boardwalk linking the components to the beach.
Cesar Reyes, a principal at STOA Architects, described five project components intended to create a ‘‘sense of place’’ for Navarre: an adaptable coastal education and visitor center with display and meeting areas, a dune walkover, four flexible retail buildings, a roughly 12,000‑square‑foot food‑truck plaza with utilities for vendors, and an open pavilion for gatherings. "This is all tied together with a boardwalk," Reyes said, adding that materials focus on durability and beach compatibility, for example cementitious siding and standing‑seam metal roofs.
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