One of Google ’s giant thrust ahead , which has beensat in Portland Harbor since last Octoberand wasplanned to be an invite - only showroom , is being scrapped .
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ThePortland Press Herald reportsthat the lighter — which is one of a pair , the other being in San Francisco — was move Wednesday . According to the newsprint , it made its way from Portland Harbor to to Turner ’s Island Cargo Terminal in South Portland , where it will be rase .
That in itself will be no mean feat : its structure is made up of 63 transport container forming a four - floor edifice atop the vessel . The proprietor of the depot told the Herald that the flatboat had been purchase by an unnamed “ international barging company ” ; the containers will be scrapped .
It ’s ill-defined why Google abandon the labor , but money probably has a lot to do with it : when unexampled in 2011 the barges were deserving $ 4 million a man , it cost $ 400,000 in belongings taxes to moor in Portland over the past months , and refit them was no doubt cripplingly expensive too .
Google ’s other barge — which wastowedfrom San Francisco to Stockton after complaints — stay uninfluenced . For now . [ Portland Press Herald ]
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