Windsor Follows Port Huron In Saying “No” To Aquarium

A committee looking into the viability of an aquarium in Windsor says it doesn’t look like a good idea.  City officials and the University of Windsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research had been studying the idea.  There is a new aquarium in Cleveland, a small one in Toldeo and one in Chicago, and Toronto is preparing to build an aquarium.  Windsor officials say that is too many in close proximity.  A report with the recommendation not to proceed goes before council at its Feb. 7 meeting.  Port Huron had been looking at the idea of building an aquarium in its downtown and following a $100,000 study, City Manager Bruce Brown said “it was concluded, that while an aquarium could easily support itself operationally in Port Huron, it would not produce a stream of income sufficient enough to support a new $20 million building.”