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Posted by Michael Davis on April 3, 2022, 8:59:01, in reply to "Beaumont, TX in discussions to house the USS Texas after refit"
Should be NO comparison: the Elissa, the Strand, Moody Gardens, Lone Star Flight Museum, more Fish than you ever possibly eat -YAY Gaidos, beautiful gray sand beaches-some of which you can drink on, most of which you can't (more family friendly), Bishop House and others, lots of Portuguese Man'o War-been there got the hat and the t-shirt. Crime rate not as good as I thought 88, but better than Dallas 93, or Beaumont 99-meaning that 99% of the cities in the US are safer than Beaumont. I travel alot of the Southwest, and in 46 years there are a few places that I will not stay overnight and this is one. 
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According to Channel 12 in Beaumont, officials are in discussions to put the USS Texas along the Neches River. Local officials believe that locating the ship along the I-10 corridor will help drive visits to other attractions in the area.
Estimates to bring the ship to Beaumont begin at 5 and a quarter million dollars and do not include necessary infrastructure including docking and visitor parking. Hey, let the State Parks fund that!
Southeast Texas couldn't keep a destroyer in Orange, where they built them. I'm not convinced that, while Galveston is at the end of the highway, it wouldn't be a better location with more annual visitors. That or dredge the Trinity River and take her to Dallas
https://www.12newsnow.com/amp/article/news/local/museum-directors-across-beaumont-discuss-battleship-texas/502-3e714564-4904-4523-a8be-a54356e50904
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