2005 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 26 Jun 2005 18:49:24 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] San Diego Naval Training Center
 
Revamp of NTC Hailed As a Model Base Closure

By PAT BRODERICK
San Diego Business Journal 
June 27, 2005

Communities facing the conversion of a military base had better have
sound strategy in place right off the bat, or they are likely to get "snookered."

That's the advice of Harry H. Kelso, an attorney, environmental
consultant and chairman and chief executive officer of Base Closure
Partners, LLC, in Richmond, Va. Kelso is also a big fan of Liberty
Station, the $850 million mixed-use project in Point Loma being built on
the grounds of the former San Diego Naval Training Center. In fact,
Kelso cites Liberty Station as a national model.

"I have looked at lots and lots of military bases and how they are
used," said Kelso, who also negotiated the redevelopment of Fort
Pickett, Va., for then-Virginia Gov. George Allen in 1997. That
conversion, split into two parcels, now is reserved for military,
business and industrial uses, "and I have concluded that how these two
installations have done are a model of how they can be done very
effectively and done correctly."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sdbj.com/article.asp?aID=562963902.4027521.1160965.3793103.2293599.777&aID2=89296

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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