One of Google's mysterious party/showroom barges has reportedly been sold and will be shipping out of its location in Portland. The barge was transferred to a new terminal Wednesday, and the terminal's owner states that it's preparing to ship out to a new owner shortly.
When the four Google barges first appear on both the East and West coasts, reports indicated that Google intended them to be a show floor for projects in work, such as Google Glass and the company's self-driving car technology.
Little work had been done on the two barges parked in Portland and San Francisco Bay, and the two others in San Francisco's Treasure Island and New London, CT didn't even have superstructures to support future development. Portland collected property taxes on the barge parked there to the tune of $400,000. In February, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission told Google it needed to move its barge out
The reports say that the Portland barge was sold to an “international barging company" and is being prepared to leave the area, according to the owner of the Turners Island cargo terminal in South Portland where the Google barge was towed on Wednesday.Further the barge is still carrying the nondescript four-story-high structure that was originally built there. Google has remained tight-lipped about the barges since their discovery, but now they stand to slip away with much of the surrounding mystery unsolved.
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