Fulton Hogan has the contract to transform Marine Pde, building on work already done extending Wansbeck St to the harbour and the construction of a walkway and lighting which forms the end of the Alps to Ocean cycleway from Mt Cook to Oamaru.
The council's property manager, Dougall McIntyre, said yesterdaythe Marine Pde project involved resealing the road, putting in kerbing and channelling, creating car parking, filling gaps between trees, landscaping around the trees and landscaping the area between Friendly Bay and the former Oamaru Carnival site.
The sea wall along the edge of the harbour had already been restored, but options were being investigated to restore the light standards which sit on top of it.
That would be a separate contract, which may be completed during the Marine Pde work.
The Marine Pde project had been approved last year, and finalised by the council in December.
It follows extending Wans-beck St to link to the harbour with a roundabout at the end of Holmes Wharf and the cycle-way, with its heritage lighting, opened in May by Prime Minister John Key.
Mr McIntyre said the latest project would not affect the proposal for a nine-year strategic plan for the development of the Oamaru Harbour and its environs.
The council's harbour subcommittee last month set a process in place to develop an overall plan for the area in consultation with those who had an interest in the harbour.
Information and proposals in 12 reports and documents that have been prepared over the past 22 years will be utilised to establish a vision for the area - what it will look like, contain and provide at the end of nine years - then set in place a timetable to complete that, along with investigating what finance is available and what will be needed in the future, including the possibility of grants and assistance from sources other than ratepayers.
