Capitol last year, The Associated Press reports. 6 riots: An anti-vaccine doctor from Beverly Hills was sentenced on Thursday to two months in prison for storming the U.S. The taproom’s logo features the Morro Bay coastline, but with the stacks replaced by giant beer bottles. “It’s absolutely part of the story of Morro Bay,” he said.Īlong the embarcadero on a recent weekend, tourists escaped blustery winds by ducking into Three Stacks and a Rock Brewing Company.
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When the stacks do come down, the city will install a plaque explaining their significance, Collins said. The company is finalizing plans to submit to the city for approval. Vistra plans to build what it says will be the largest battery storage facility in the world, and has agreed to tear down the stacks by the end of 2027. So the City Council in October voted to cede control of the stacks to Vistra Corp., an energy company based in Texas that now owns the power plant. (The city’s entire annual budget is less than $16 million.)
In San Francisco, the shuttered Potrero Power Plant is being redeveloped into a modern apartment complex and boutique hotel, with its smokestack preserved as a reminder of the region’s history.īut maintaining the Morro Bay stacks probably would have cost the city a million dollars a year, with ultimate renovation or removal an additional several million, Collins said. In the eight years since the power plant closed, some have suggested transforming the stacks into a public art project, or perhaps a venue for extreme sports. When I visited recently, I ate at a popular wine bar and bistro, in the shadow of the industrial towers. The Morro Bay Embarcadero, the city’s main commercial strip, overlooks sparkling waters dotted by fishing boats and surfers, but the horizon is dominated by the two impossibly large landmarks. “People who were first-time visitors to Morro Bay would say, ‘My god, how did that get there?’” The towers became linked to the region’s prosperity and faded into the background, at least for those who saw them every day, Anderson said.
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