New owners, almost all smiles
In case you haven’t been following along at home, here’s coverage of yesterday’s joint press conference by Save the Queen officials–the development consortium which bought the lease to operate the Queen Mary and 64 acres of surrounding land–and the City of Long Beach.

Save The Queen frontman denies any deal
Jeff Klein says he’s already contacted the Israel-based news organization Globes Online to tell them they’re wrong: there’s no deal with anyone to sell off any part of the RMS Queen Mary.
“You can’t sell what you don’t have,” Klein told The District.
Klein said Save The Queen is talking with [...]

Save The Queen frontman Jeff Klein, sounding exasperated and exhausted, continued to seek clarification Friday afternoon on a legal ruling that seems to give him only until the end of the day Tuesday to finalize his purchase of the Queen Mary lease.
“We’re trying to understand what the closing date should be — there are different [...]

Save The Queen frontman Jeff Klein was caught off guard this morning when he learned that his development consortium has only three business days — until the end of the day Tuesday, November 6 — to finalize its $43 million bid to purchase the lease to operate the Queen Mary and develop 64 acres of [...]

The complicated sale of the lease to operate and develop the Queen Mary resumed its slow and unsteady progress toward closure Thursday morning in bankruptcy court when Judge Vincent Zurzulo approved an unusual $1.15 million settlement of a dispute lodged by small contracting company AAC Shoreline — after disgruntled development company, Bandero LLC, withdrew its [...]

A company that insists it has been defrauded of development rights to the Queen Mary and surrounding acreage will be in Los Angeles bankruptcy court this morning to try to put another obstacle in the path of final sale of the lease to that property.
Bandero LLC says it has invested more than $12 million into [...]