The 335ft (102m) long pier has had numerous owners over the years since it was opened in 1873.
Choose from villas on the beach or jutting off a long pier over the turquoise lagoon at this 44-acre Bora Bora resort (both types have butlers).
They bought the quarter-of-a-mile-long Grand Pier in February 2008.
Should that unfold, such actions could recall what happened in Long Branch with Pier Village.
The devastating 1987 fire destroyed a long-standing pier, a local landmark that held an amusement park, and accelerated the decline.
"What happened in Long Branch to achieve Pier Village is an atrocity, " says the 53-year-old Mr. MacCloud, who now lives in Tom's River in a ranch-style home a couple of miles from the water.
"Eminent domain is like a knife, " says Vince Lepore, a Long Branch activist who fought against Pier Village.
The prime downtown parcel near the city's popular Navy Pier offers views of Lake Michigan and has long tantalized investors.
When it first opened, the walkway was 1, 200ft (365m) long but in World War II a section of the pier was removed amid fears of German invasion.
Set on Pier Mauro, jutting into the bay, the museum has a long, white carapace that is segmented and airy at the same time.
Pier Oddone, Fermilab's boss, plans to follow it with the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), which will send a yet-more intense beam of the particles to an underground laboratory in South Dakota.
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