Noyo Center lands $825k federal grant

A sunny day on the Noyo Headlands. (Kate Fishman/The Mendocino Voice)

by Kate Fishman of The Mendocino Voice

FORT BRAGG, CA, 9/8/22 — On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded an $825,230 grant to Fort Bragg’s Noyo Center for Marine Science, to further facilitate the development of an Ocean Science Center envisioned to bolster marine research, education, and tourism in Mendocino County. 

This Noyo Center facility was first envisioned back in 2002, when the Georgia Pacific lumber mill site closed in Fort Bragg and the community began to debate desired directions for future development in the town. The Noyo Center, a nonprofit, launched in 2015; it now has a discovery center on Main Street, an interpretive center on the Noyo Headlands, and a brand new cafe in Noyo Harbor.