Re: Portland officials were looking for another tenant for high-speed ferry?

[Guest guest]

It sure does. Are so many places that just get another

tenant to inhabit toxic mold buildings. <As we all on

here know> Am surprised that was even in the

article.

Unknowing people educated on toxic mold, <or are they>

especially the BIG corporations who are only

interested in the $$$. Heck with peoples health...

:-(

That article gave me the creeps as was married at the

time and went on a weekend cruise on the Scotia Prince

out of Maine to Nova Scotia back in 1985. Were a lot

of military on the trip. From Portsmouth AFB and

naval personnel from the shipyard where Gingersnap

worked. Have missed seeing anything posted from her.

Hope she doing better.

--- Kim <kimallen@...> wrote:

new ferry employees will use the contaminated

> building in Portland???

>

>

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/31/investors_int\

erested_in_taking_scotia_prince_to_boston/

>

> YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia -- A group of American

> investors is hoping to launch a ferry service

> between Nova Scotia and Boston.

e proposal calls for the ferry to sail from Boston

> to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, on Mondays, Wednesdays

> and Fridays, beginning this summer. It would make

> the 12- to 14-hour return trip on Tuesdays,

> Thursdays and Saturdays.

>

> Organizers are negotiating to lease the Scotia

> Prince, which made regular runs between Portland,

> Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, for years before

> the service was canceled last month.

>

> One of the investors, Gene Hartigan of Boston's

> Shores Atlantic LLC, said the announcement of the

> Boston-to-Shelburne route could come within days.

>

> " It's less about whether it will become a reality

> but more about when it will begin, " he said. " I

> would say the window right now would be between July

> 1 and August 1. Obviously it would be an abbreviated

> season. "

>

> Lydia Deinstadt, manager of the Shelburne Visitor

> Centre, said it would give the town at Nova Scotia's

> southern tip an economic boost it needs.

>

> The 32-year-old Scotia Prince and its predecessor,

> the Prince of Fundy, provided ferry service from

> Portland, Maine, to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, for 35

> years. The ferry can accommodate up to 1,000

> passengers and 185 vehicles.

>

> Earlier this year, its owners canceled their season

> and put the Scotia Prince up for sale. They filed a

> $20 million lawsuit against the city of Portland for

> its alleged failure to address toxic mold at the

> city-owned International Marine Terminal.

>

> City officials say they made $1.2 million worth of

> improvements to the terminal and defended their

> decision to terminate the ferry's $400,000-a-year

> lease after the cruise company canceled its 2005

> season.

*******************

> Portland officials were looking for another tenant,

> possibly The Cat, the high-speed ferry that now runs

> between Bar Harbor, Maine, and Nova Scotia.

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