A malfunctioning circuit board is the culprit behind the closure of the new elevator into Westminster Pier Park – less than a week after it opened.

Blair Fryer, the city’s communications manager, said the call button on the lower level stopped working last Thursday afternoon. The elevator opened on Saturday, March 5.

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“Maintenance workers diagnosed the issue as a malfunctioning circuit board on Friday,” he said in an email to the Record on Monday. “A new circuit board for the lower level call button was ordered and is being installed today.”

Fryer told the Record late Monday afternoon that the elevator has been fixed and will reopen on Tuesday morning. The elevator is open from dawn to dusk.

The elevator became operational on March 5, nearly a year after the stairwell portion of the $3.2 million Fourth Street overpass project opened to the public