Delta Queen could be sold and moved To New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Please Read below. Please email this video to anyone you think might care and take action. Copy the web address in the address bar. Then paste it in an email and send. Thanks..Jim Whetzel Entrepreneurs Judy and Wayne Heller “have signed a letter of intent with a 30 to 45-day window to buy the 285-foot-long Delta Queen.” (Daytona Beach News Journal: March 28, 2012) They hope to tow the 84-year-old National Historic Landmark by June 1 (Daytona Beach News Journal: March 27, 2012) to the Atlantic Ocean side of Florida to New Smyrna Beach, located south of Daytona Beach, where it would flank the Heller’s Riverview Hotel. This would remove the vessel from its current home along the Tennessee River in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee where it operates as a hotel, restaurant, lounge, special event facility and live entertainment venue. It’s removal would separate the historic vessel from the river system it has cruised since 1947. “To make the venture a reality, Heller said he needs the city to sell him 5 acres at 120 N. Causeway where he would dock the boat. He would use the land for parking and possibly for a boardwalk.” (Daytona Beach News Journal: March 28, 2012) Relocating the Delta Queen would require the fragile wooden vessel to endure a long ocean voyage to east Florida where the boat would float in salt water and be at risk of enduring hurricanes. Additional concerns regarding the relocation arise from the …
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