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The entire airport property has been re-sold to the Marriott Family: The price is yet unknown.
The seller, an insider, paid $750,000 for the airport in 1995—on a literal handshake with Ralph Horn.
The Marriotts own a huge chunk of contiguous waterfront properties on Tuftonboro Neck (in sight of the airport) and have been looking to buy abutters' properties which have much calmer waters on which to waterski.
One recent photo shows one
end of the existing estate, so the Marriotts aren't likely to rebuild the airport or to replant the area in forest.
BTW: I just learned that it was a Marriott executive who encouraged Mitt Romney to buy a Wolfeboro waterfront place ten years ago.
Since groundbreaking and dynamiting early last year, that one lakefront lot is
still under construction with the usual McMansion on a lot that extends about 300' wide, and extends nearly 400' from the water's edge.
Lot sales have been non-existant, with the "model home" (below) rarely visited. It may have been that rugged, winding, jarring start to a 4-mile-ride to Wolfeboro that failed the developer. At only 20', the lake is not particularly deep between the paired estates (Ayer's Point to Thomas Point), so a bridge constructed between the two Marriott mega-estates can't be ruled out.
Upon the 1995 airport tract's approval for development, the Town of Wolfeboro was promised that half of the land would remain as original forest "In Perpetuity".
So far, so good.
The saga continues:
Will it be
bulldozed once again?
Will Ralph Horn's memorial headstone be
moved once again?
Or will there be a "Marriott-Wolfeboro Airport"?
