Night Hunter Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 A floating McDonald’s restaurant may sound like a wonderful fast-food industry concept but you won’t find any Happy Meals at this restaurant. The McBarge was built in 1986 for an estimated cost of $8 million (£5.6 million) but proved to be a bad investment and has been left empty for the last 30 years in a creek on the west coast of Canada. Urban explorers have more recently ventured inside the abandoned restaurant to capture what it looks like now, sharing the photos on a Facebook group. The Mcdonald's barge was built to showcase future architecture and technology at the 1986 World Exposition and has been moored in Vancouver, British Columbia, ever since. Now the barge could be set for a major refurbishment, with its owner setting aside more than £2 million, with plans to reopen its doors once more to the public. The planned location for its relaunch will remain a secret for now, the barge’s owner Howard Meakin previously told CBCNews. “I can't say where. It's quite unique and it's going to be an outstanding attraction,” he said. “It's going to attract a lot of attention. “It's a number of things that came together over the last five or six months. It's government … It’s private, different companies.” He told the Vancouver Sun: “It will be restored and refitted. “It could be in Vancouver, but it could be in other places as well. We’re not saying exactly where it’s going to be located, but the plan is that it will undergo extensive renovations. “And I can’t tell you what the plan is. We’re under a non-disclosure agreement, but it fits in with the 30th anniversary of the Exposition. It will all happen in 2016, and we expect that it’s going to take probably most of the year to do the work.” Source http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12187878/McBarge-Floating-McDonalds-restaurant-left-abandoned-for-30-years.html 1 Quote
BnBChumMaster Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 Need a few of those on the Great Lakes here in U.S., it would be cool with a drive up window for charters out fishing. 1 Quote
Alphaleader Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 it could be perhaps less expensive to build a new one than restore something old Need a few of those on the Great Lakes here in U.S., it would be cool with a drive up window for charters out fishing. Could be fun to have a mcdrive (or Mcboat) Quote
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