by this foundation and will likely be back for more talks that could offer 30-plus jobs and a crapload of tourism and spin-off revenue. Should we be agressive in attracting this historic attraction here?A Brief History Of The USS Ranger
From the USS Ranger Foundation
The US Navy announced that the USS Ranger Foundation’s Phase I application for donation of the super-carrier ex-USS Ranger has been approved and moved the group into Phase two of the four-phase process.
Now the Work Begins!
The USS Ranger Museum is a privately funded project, with individual and corporate support, and therefore will not be utilizing City of Portland/Metro funding as a revenue base.
Phase two of the process has a 12 month timeline, during which the exact location of the museum complex will be finalized, environmental, marketing, business, neighborhood support and other studies will be completed and updated. Fund raising will increase, and national and international friends will be called upon to support the project.
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Nygaard wants to do something big?
Bag that bullshit Wal-Mart project and get behind this thing.
McGee still thinks the taxpayers should fund this floating junkyard as a tourist atttraction. Jesus, what a white elephant an old aircraft carrier is--and sorry, I'm sure Nygaard is way to smart to be hornswoggled into investing in something this worthless
The USS Ranger Foundation foots the primary bills.
The USS Ranger Foundation foots the primary bills.
Would you consider the cost of building an appropriate berthing facility a "primary bill"?
What they are doing is looking for a free home for that floating scrap yard.
Now the Work Begins!
The USS Ranger Museum is a privately funded project, with individual and corporate support, and therefore will not be utilizing City of Portland/Metro(Public Funding) funding as a revenue base.
so, they got a berth in Portland?
Well, good for them, but nothing is free. It will be fun to see that thing getting towed upriver. Then back down when it's scrapping time.
If anyone thinks that symbol of American military aggression could find a home in sacred Clatsop County, home of Coast Guard haters Peter Huhtala and Susan Skinner, well, they better think again.
Some would see "The Ranger" as a symbol that has assured us the freedom to allow the likes of you to come to sites like this, anonymously, or at least under the pretense that you think you are and criticize it.
You better check with your fellow anti LNGers like Huhtala & Skinner, then McGee, because they don't even like coast guard boats-they wont stand to have some humongous warship parked in their private little utopia
What's it called... The military-Industrial Complex?
Yeah, that's always been one of Sue's little quirks as is her belief that we should preserve our White, Middle Class values at all costs and of course it will be environmental issues with Peter but, you know what?.....that leaves some 37,498, or so,
Caltsopians to decide whether they want that ship here or not and in spite of you and me as well.
Since Huhtala has been here all his life he hasn't ever given anyone any reason to regard him as anything but a screwball-apparently, from reading Ms. Skinner's blather she undoubtedly meets the requriements for a place in Screwballand, too...as for making the idea that this old tub a local tax supported white elephant tourist trap is something all "Clatsopians" should have a say in, that is ridiculous. If big metropolitan areas can't float that thing financially or any reason there isn't any way in hell it will fly here-God knows, espcecially in Astoria, that people are sick to death of tourists and don't want any more than we already have. Jesus, this place has gone to hell compared to what it used to be.
Mark said:"Now the Work Begins!
The USS Ranger Museum is a privately funded project, with individual and corporate support, and therefore will not be utilizing Public Funding as a revenue base."
Nanoym said:"that people are sick to death of tourists and don't want any more than we already have. Jesus, this place has gone to hell compared to what it used to be."
Better get used to it then because it is not going to decrease and we better be figuring out how to deal with it and quickly.
Hopefully, all the wailing andd bemoaning from the antis regarding Bradwood's supposed deathblow to the tourism in Astoria will come true-and they and the tourists will run away in panic
That's just not going to happen and just wishing it will all go away is not going to change it.
There are no "privately funded" projects of this nature. Just look at all the "privately funded" adventures that already exist. The fact is that the local government where the project occurs is expected to provide tax breaks, building inspection cost breaks, pay for promitions via the room tax and all the public safety and other governmental costs for free. Astoria has a mill stone swimming pool that saps its ability to provide even basic services well. It does not need another money drain just to keep smiley faces on a few people.
Charles said...
There are no "privately funded" projects of this nature. Just look at all the "privately funded" adventures that already exist.
As it was with the Calpine/Port of Astoria Lease, it was all in the deal wasn't it?
The Ranger Group wants to move here they will do so on our, The Community's, terms should they not and under reasonable compromise by all?
The trick will be in who negotiates "The Deal" in our interests and there is really no restriction that will prevent it from being in our favor shouyld we choose it to be so.
You can access The Ranger Foundation through the front page of this discussion and what they propose if you wish.
Don't say never until it's proven.
Oh!
"The Pool"?
I say shut it down, add 30-40 feet to the east side and convert it to an Ice Arena/Community Center and keep it booked year round for profit and turn the profits into enchanced recreational programs for all in the County but, that's just me.
I still remember the "Town Hall" hosted by the Astoria City Council for the citizens to come look at the plans and give their comments, of which 95% were negative, as if it were still a proposal, while at the same time, directly across the street from Columbia River Maritime Museum, where this Town Hall was going on, construction of "the pool" was already under way.
A culmination of a 25 year dream, dreamed by many Astoria hertiage merit names we would all likely recognize today.
Even then it was going to have to be subsidized, at that time for, $60,000.00 a year and its contruction cost already exceeded its approved bond with the general fund raided for the balance with no vote whatsoever.
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