Friday, December 12, 2008
By RYAN DEZEMBER
Staff Reporter
ORANGE BEACH — Municipal employees aren't the only casualties of the city's budget crunch: Plans for a public marina that have been on the drawing board for more than three years are also poised to be indefinitely postponed.
Conceived as a home of last resort for Alabama's 301-boat charter fishing fleet, Orange Beach paid about $9.6 million for a storm-battered boatyard on Terry Cove in early 2005 and has since designed a municipal marina complex there.
With the low bid to build the project coming in last month at $17.2 million, elected officials said they can't imagine starting work anytime soon.
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