The conservancy that oversees a storied but aging ocean liner and its landlord have resolved a years-old rent dispute that will clear the way for a Florida county to turn the historic ship into the world’s largest artificial reef.
The SS United States, a historic ocean liner that has been rotting at a Philadelphia dock for decades, may find new life as a hotel, brewery, and entertainment complex, the Philly Voice reports.
RXR Realty is embarking on a $500 million renovation project that will turn a 1950s-era ocean liner into a hotel, Bloomberg reported. Rechler, the company founder and CEO, is now shopping plans around New York, San Francisco and about six other cities to find a place to moor the finished product.
RXR Realty LLC of New York plans to renovate the SS United States, the massive ocean liner that has spent decades deteriorating at a dock near South Philadelphia’s big-box shopping district, into a hotel-and-museum complex for a yet-to-be determined city’s waterfront.
