Photos by jwford : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Hello Peter. I understood at the time their was some government commitment to rehabilitate the place and some funds tied up in it. I was only visiting and never followed up but many people were very angry about the fire because they fought a hard fight to save it. A competing commercial pier a few hundred feet to the west of this one fought the renovation. Many suspicions about the fire were being discussed that day as most of the town came to watch it burn.

Thank you. Yes, it was an opportune weekend, I guess. I still wonder what happened to all those birds.