USS Arizona site to be renovated
A $52-million project will renovate and rebuild the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center, officials said Friday.
The center is on unstable ground and slowly sinking below the ocean water in Pearl Harbor.
Built in 1980, the center has been releveled five times, even as some of the supporting columns have sunk more than 30 inches into the shaky soil, causing cracks and other stresses on the two buildings.
“We think it’s got maybe the life of another five or six years and then it’s got to go,” said Jonathan Jarvis, regional director of the National Park Service.
The Park Service plans to raise the money through private donations and hopes to reopen the center by Dec. 7, 2009, the 68th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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