Victor Moffitt ‘Lets Shark Out of Tank’ for Proposed Aquarium
Molding his grand vision into reality at well-known local site.
‘We’re the Ocean State and we don’t even have an aquarium,” said Victor Moffitt, Coventry businessman and former three-term State Representative at his Moffitt and Associates tax and investment office last week. That is an oft-repeated refrain Moffitt began uttering after visiting Georgia Aquarium, then the world’s largest aquarium, five years ago. And when he ran for Governor of Rhode Island in 2010, building an aquarium became a cornerstone message of his campaign. Now as Chairman and President of newly-incorporated Oceans Aquarium Research & Science Center- a non-profit, tax-exempt organization- Moffitt and his 15-member board are already primed to move the project into a facility phase. “We are just a few weeks away from holding a …
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Robin
9:28 am on Wednesday, February 1, 2012
What a wonderful investment in our future. It's interesting, it's eco friendly and a much needed boost of optimism for our local community. more ›