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Originally Posted by spaustin
Awful lot of negativity here. I agree that $200 million would be too much for HRM or even the Province to come up with. $200 million of provincial or municipal money could buy a lot of more important items on the wish list, like a greatly improved transit system. If, however, the Naval Trust is able to get a significant contribution from the federal government and fund raise successfully from private sources, why wouldn't we wish them good luck?
The Armoury might be a nice idea, but you would still need to cut into the building, complete whatever deferred maintenance needs to be done, build some kind of platform to hold the Sackville and move the boat to the Armoury. It wouldn't be $200 million, but it wouldn't be cheap. Better to build a purpose-built building on the waterfront than slap something together just because it's there.
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I can't imagine it being much more than 50 million to achieve and it could be more varied in exhibits than one moment in history. Theres going to be some costly renovations to building no mater what happens to it and all its military artifact are going to have to be costly moved to else where once its decide what the building will be. Building some kind of platform to hold the Sackville and moving it wouldn't be that hard, there is also adequate space to hoist whatever plane they plan on putting in there above it. You have adequate parking space and everything you need right on site already there. If it did bring in a lot more tourists and visitors to it it would boost the Agricola street and Gottingen area a lot more.