El Dorado Beach is always a busy location each summer in South Lake Tahoe.

The difference this year is it’s full of construction workers instead of beach-goers and barbecuers.

What Lakeview Commons will look like when its done.

While the weather shut down the multi-million beautification-recreation-water quality project for two days, Clark and Sullivan Builders are not behind because hiccups like that were built into the calendar.

South Lake Tahoe City Councilman Tom Davis at a South Lake Tahoe Lodging Association meeting this month told that board the project will be completed for the most part before winter. However, he said landscaping won’t be done until next spring.

“I would like to have a locals’ beach party next year,” Davis said.

Driving by on Highway 50 it’s hard to know what is going on. Most of the work is near the beach. The dirt piled near the highway is essentially the eroding hill that was there. It is being developed into a terraced sitting area.

More tables and barbecues will be near the street like before. A structure near the boat ramp will be used to store canoes and kayaks. Restrooms are also part of the project.

Improvements are being tied into Caltrans’ three-year Trout Creek to Ski Run Boulevard street improvement project so the road won’t be constantly torn up.

— Kathryn Reed