Another proposed opening date for the Aquatarium fails to materialize
"City council is becoming increasingly disgruntled with every unmet opening date."
One has to laugh at their operation.
“We can say with some credibility and some definitiveness that Victoria Day will be opening day,” Tony Barnes, chairman of the facility's steering committee, told city councillors earlier this week. Bill Rogerson, the Aquatarium's executive director, had previously promised a revised opening date between March and May of 2015."
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"The new date was only the latest in a series of delays in the opening of the interactive tourist attraction, previously slated to open on the June 2013 weekend of the Tall Ships Festival, then bumped to World Water Day last March 22. City officials hope the $21-million Aquatarium, now being built at the foot of Broad Street adjacent to the Tall Ships Landing condominium tower, will be Brockville's signature tourism attraction."
I'd give that project a big NO CONFIDENCE vote, given that they initially said it would open 'within months' (now looking to be a full two years delay from the original open date, without reason to now believe their latest 'date' given that they only give it 'some credibility' and 'some definitiveness'. Sounds like they already have plans to delay the opening yet again, and left themselves an out by phrasing it that way.
Link to article:
http://www.recorder.ca/2014/10/24/victoria-day-opening-for-aquatarium
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Yeah, right? A $21-million signature attraction, yet it appears they aren't even able to scrape together 4600 dollars to acquire Aquatarium.com, sitting for sale on Ebay. A real quality operation they got going there, yeah?
* And YES, this is the same project that put efforts to bring a secure treatment unit to the Brockville Mental Health Centre on the back burner, while the Aquatarium took top priority. Ironic where their priorities are, especially given incidents of late in Canada.
http://www.recorder.ca/2014/02/25/live-coverage-brockville-council
(( correction/update?: someone noted to me that signage at the site indicates it was ACTUALLY slated to be open Summer 2012 ))