As we look to the future, it is possible that the USS North Carolina might have some more neighbors on the west bank of the Cape Fear River. Developers have been eying this land for years, and most recently this month.
Terry Bragg points out that the Battleship was named a National Historic Landmark in 1986, which gives it certain protections.
"You couldn't put up a Walmart next to the Battleship," for example, or do "anything that could encumber our historical significance," Bragg said.
Bragg says he has met with several developers over the years who were interested in building on the west side of the river by the Battleship, but the costs they would sustain for building in a flood plain, infrastructure, lack of sewer and water and meeting federal guidelines were just too cost prohibitive.
One project Bragg sees as having possibility is the development of a park on Eagles Island by the ship.
--GreGen
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