A Minnesota builder wants to bring a 180-unit condominium development to Chattanooga’s waterfront in the next couple of years.
Contributed renderingA Minnesota builder wants to bring a 180-unit condominium development to Chattanooga’s waterfront in the next couple of years.
But don’t expect the downtown landscape to change.
David Nelson, a 58-year-old who lives on a houseboat on the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minn., says he plans to build the world’s biggest inland passenger boat to float year-round to river cities from Minnesota to Florida and from Texas to Pennsylvania.
If he is successful, the “floating community” of 350 residents and crew could briefly dock in Chattanooga by 2013 as part of the boat’s annual 10,700-mile journey along more than a half dozen rivers and the Intracoastal Waterway to the Gulf of Mexico.
“This is like owning a waterfront condo with a changing view most every day – and no worries about either hurricanes or snow,” Nelson said Thursday.