Freedom Ship - The Floating City
Freedom Ship is a proposed to be a unique place to live, work, retire, vacation, or visit. This ocean-going vessel will be 4500 feet long, 750 feet wide and 350 feet high that can accommodate 40,000 people.
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The proposed superstructure would contain condominium apartments, schools from kindergarten to 12th grade, a hospital, libraries, casinos, offices, restaurants, hotels, warehouses, banks, recreational facilities and an airstrip.
The vessel will circumnavigate the earth every two years with stoppages at San Francisco, New York, Nigeria, Hong Kong and Sydney. Since, the vessel is too big to be docked at many ports, residents will fly to and from the city from the onboard airport. It will have its own economy, with people working in the offices, shops and bars and onboard residents paying a maintenance fee.
The idea was proposed in the late 1990s but the ambitious project failed to attract venture capital and was shelved after the financial crisis. Nixon deceased in 2012. Looking at the economic climate change, the project is being resurrected by Roger Gooch who worked in the original team with Nixon. With his incredible marketing skills, Roger Gooch brought the idea back into the limelight with immense press coverage.
According to Gooch, media attention was required for the project's astronomical investment capital estimated to be around $9-10 billion. The idea has attracted many investors but no venture capital firms as yet.
Freedom Ship is a proposed to be a unique place to live, work, retire, vacation, or visit. This ocean-going vessel will be 4500 feet long, 750 feet wide and 350 feet high that can accommodate 40,000 people.
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The proposed superstructure would contain condominium apartments, schools from kindergarten to 12th grade, a hospital, libraries, casinos, offices, restaurants, hotels, warehouses, banks, recreational facilities and an airstrip.
The vessel will circumnavigate the earth every two years with stoppages at San Francisco, New York, Nigeria, Hong Kong and Sydney. Since, the vessel is too big to be docked at many ports, residents will fly to and from the city from the onboard airport. It will have its own economy, with people working in the offices, shops and bars and onboard residents paying a maintenance fee.
The idea was proposed in the late 1990s but the ambitious project failed to attract venture capital and was shelved after the financial crisis. Nixon deceased in 2012. Looking at the economic climate change, the project is being resurrected by Roger Gooch who worked in the original team with Nixon. With his incredible marketing skills, Roger Gooch brought the idea back into the limelight with immense press coverage.
According to Gooch, media attention was required for the project's astronomical investment capital estimated to be around $9-10 billion. The idea has attracted many investors but no venture capital firms as yet.
