{"id":2619,"date":"2025-10-14T15:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2619\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:20:06","slug":"charlotte-county-gets-closer-to-rebuilding-el-jobean-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2619\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte County gets closer to rebuilding El Jobean Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. \u2014 Charlotte County leaders are hoping to bring back a beloved community spot.  They confirmed to Fox 4 that commissioners took a step toward rebuilding the El Jobean Pier, Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Commissioners approved of creating a $250,000 design contract with Giffels Webster Engineers. <\/p>\n<p>The county&#8217;s hurricane recovery fund, plus a FEMA reimbursement, would likely cover the costs for <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottecountyfl.gov\/departments\/community-services\/parks\/all-parks\/el-jobean-fishing-pier.stml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Jobean<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The pier closed after it <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4now.com\/punta-gorda\/very-positive-el-jobean-fishing-pier-to-reopen-in-six-months-following-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caught fire <\/a>in May of last year, then was damaged again in Hurricanes Helene and Milton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. \u2014 Charlotte County leaders are hoping to bring back a beloved community spot. They confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,853,3170,3171,3172,3173,3169],"class_list":{"0":"post-2619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-charlotte-county","12":"tag-charlotte-county-update","13":"tag-el-jobean","14":"tag-el-jobean-pier-update","15":"tag-pier","16":"tag-port-charlotte-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}