Updating and Fact-Checking Summers End Marina

What’s really going on with Summers End, the controversial marina project planned for Coral Bay, St. John?

Representatives for the project presented a list of 20 permitting and legal challenges they claimed to have met during a meeting of the Senate Subcommittee on Economic Development and Agriculture on Nov. 13. (Testimony on the project can be seen starting four hours and 20 minutes into the video recording using this link by clicking here and written testimony can be viewed here.)

“The project is fully ready to proceed …. With any luck at all, we should be able to break ground very soon,” said Jeff Boyd, a Summers End Group partner. Boyd said developers anticipated a 12-month build out and should be able to complete the facility in time for the 2026 tourist season. This optimistic viewpoint took some senators by surprise. “I’m very confused as to what is the reality here,” said Sen. Alma Francis Heyliger, noting that she had received correspondence indicating otherwise.