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U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney is proposing a $4.9 million federal earmark to add to the $20 million already committed from the state, to reflect rising costs.
The New London City Council, which may decide whether to give Coast Guard museum association more time to build downtown, should ask the public to comment
May 10, 2021 By Waterways Journal
The National Coast Guard Museum Association will host a virtual panel discussion May 13 titled “Stories That Matter: Keeping Commerce Flowing Year-Round Through Changing Conditions on Inland Waterways.”
The event will begin at noon EDT. Featured panelists are: Rear Adm. Mary Landry, the retired former commander of Coast Guard district 8; Jennifer Carpenter, American Waterways Operators president and CEO; Cmdr. Christian J. Barger, deputy sector commander of Coast Guard Sector Mississippi River; and David Grzebinski, president and CEO of Kirby Corporation.
Let s be honest, it was a rich philanthropist from New Orleans who nurtured and helped fund the concept of building the National Coast Guard Museum on the downtown New London waterfront.
James Coleman not only brought on board his own lawyer, who for a while helped deliver momentum to the project, but he bought the downtown Union Station to help facilitate the use of the problematic proposed site.
But Coleman died two years ago, and there is no sign of the same kind of guardian angel appearing anywhere on the horizon.
Not only is the museum project dead in the water, having missed years worth of deadlines for raising the money needed to build it, but the back-of-the-envelope guesses as to how much it might eventually cost are so old as to be worthless.