JFK going to South Florida to be a floating museum?

[Seraphs]

This thread prompted me to do a little research.  I hadn't realized how long ago we went through this floating museum hype.  Well let me put you all at ease.  It has about a snowball's chance in hell of coming to fruition.
On August 20, 1994 the Saratoga was decommissioned.  A group of folks started a foundation, "Save our Sara".  The Saratoga was to be placed on the southbank of the riverwalk as a floating museum and see about a half million visitors per year.

Guess what happened next, the naysayers started, "It's ugly and unsightly against the skyline, you can see it from I-95, a hurricane would rip it from it's moorings and wreck into the bridges."  This is just a few things they found wrong.  Well if you click on the link below you will see how we as a city failed to raise the funds to make this happen.  This city had an opportunity to have something as unique and steeped in history as the Saratoga and totally blew it. 

Again I say to all of you newcomers to Jacksonville, choose your battles, this one is pretty much a waste of time and energy.  I don't know that much about aircraft carriers but I would assume the Saratoga is pretty much the same size as the JFK.  My point is the significance, If the turned down the Saratoga why would the persue the JFK?

If the link doesn't work you can google Saratoga Decommissioning.
http://en.wikiprdia.org/wiki/uss_saratoga_(cv-60)#Decommissioning

[fightingosprey07]

Okay, so it might look a little out of place near downtown. But what if we park it on the river behind the zoo, and incorporate it into Ocklawaha's marineland idea. between the zoo, marineland, and the jfk, that would be a true destination. Or maybe it could dock at the navy fuel depot, which is right next to the zoo anyways.

[fightingosprey07]

Apparently we're a little late:   http://www.wtlv.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=103099

[thelakelander]

Nice.  Especially considering this will be a private funded project, if it succeeds.

Btw, the ships location would be almost in the exact same spot as the one we drew up in a sketch two years ago.

[thelakelander]

Here's a rendering of what it would look like docked next to the Acosta Bridge.


http://www.adamsclassddgvets.org/