Another step forward for the Port Hawkesbury waterfront development.

Council has approved an investment $15,000 toward the next phase in the project.

The Strait Canso Yacht Club offered to pay 25 per cent and the Town approved to cover the remaining 75 per cent.

Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton shared the benefits of giving the waterfront a makeover as she thinks it an important puzzle piece for the future of the Town of Port Hawkesbury.

“It will be about attracting new revenue streams. It’s going to be about continuing to cultivate, um, the waterfront as a working waterfront, but also as a tourism destination,” she explained.

Chisholm-Beaton says it’s important to balance the different needs of the waterfront.

“Figuring out what’s that right interconnectedness with the coexistence between being a working waterfront and being a destination, and not just for our residents, but also for visitors,” she expressed.

It is unclear what the next phase will be, but they are in the second year of the five-year plan which includes updating both infrastructure and the marina.