One Alaskan's pitch to the state: “We would be interested in converting the ferry into a floating hotel/restaurant.'
The state ferry Malaspina sits in layup in Ward Cove near Ketchikan on May 10, 2020. The state says it pays nearly $450,000 a year to be tied up at the private docking facility.
The Dunleavy administration decided in December 2019 to tie it up at a private facility near Ketchikan But even idle, the state is paying upwards of $75,000 a month in mooring fees and insurance costs at the private Ward Cove facility.unnamed U.S. buyer who would keep the 450-passenger ship in Alaska was interested
“We like these projects — we like to think big and nothing really scares us,” said Greg Meyer of Cordova. He and his wife own a waterfront restaurant in the Prince William Sound community. He says his family was sad when The Malaspina could be redeveloped on tidelands that are part of a former Cordova cannery property they own.
But now the state says it wants the Malaspina to remain in Alaska. And he says his firm could do that. McConnell says he’s talking to partners in Alaska to turn it into a floating attraction.
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