The City of Norwalk’s Strategic Harbor Study, presented to the Joint Economic & Community Development Committee and Planning and Zoning Commission on June 17, 2026, lays out a multi-part roadmap for harbor investments rather than a single discrete project. It identifies near-term priorities such as expanding mooring capacity, standing up a water taxi system, improving five priority shoreline street ends, and pursuing resilience and access projects, all backed by a funding roadmap focused on federal and state grants. No procurements are authorized yet, but the study explicitly anticipates the City contracting for harbor management services, designing and constructing ADA‑compliant access improvements, installing living shorelines, and implementing wayfinding and signage. For vendors, this is a pre-RFP signal that Norwalk is moving from planning into scoping concrete design, engineering, construction, management, and grant-support work tied to the harbor. Firms in waterfront engineering, marine construction, transportation/mobility services, environmental consulting, economic development, and public access/wayfinding can begin positioning with Planning & Zoning and the Harbor Management Commission as the City prioritizes which projects to advance and packages them for grants and procurement over the next several years.

Study recommends a modified hybrid mooring management model, contracted harbor management services, ...