Greg Nickels’s big plans for south Lake Union originally didn’t include the Wawona, the 110-year-old Pacific Schooner that’s been docked since the ’70s at what’s now South Lake Union Park.

This week, the Wawona’s fate was apparently decided at a meeting of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Board. Northwest Seaport, the nonprofit that now owns the ship, would have it drydocked, disassembled, many pieces replaced, and reassembled on land near its current pier. The whole operation would take $2 million. Northwest Seaport has only raised $400,000 thus far toward the ship’s long-term restoration. But they’re hoping the SLU area’s higher visibility will translate into higher visibility for their cause.

At the same meeting, representatives of developer David Sabey discussed their plans for the old Georgetown brewery site. Sabey’s people said they won’t even try to preserve the facade of the site’s southernmost building (the former Rainier Cold Storage), which they said was too far gone to restore into anything. They might, however, consider carefully dismantling the building’s front wall so it can be rebuilt in front of some new structure.

Oh, and did you hear Sabey wants to buy, and save, the Sonics and Storm? He’d put up a new arena for the basketball teams on the old Associated Grocers land he now owns near Boeing Field.

Sabey’s current record at preserving threatened Seattle institutions is now 0-1. (He was the last owner of the Frederick & Nelson department store, which had greatly fiscally deteriorated before he came in.) Saving the Sonics would make him a true Comeback Kid.