[CPEO-IRF] Upbeat look at Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Close look at BNAS closure

Consultants offer upbeat prognosis for the redevelopment of the Navy base.

Christopher Cousins
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
April 27, 2006

BRUNSWICK — The robust economy of the greater Brunswick region bodes 
well for the redevelopment of Brunswick Naval Air Station as long as the 
economy remains robust, a panel of base-closure experts told area civic 
and business leaders Wednesday.

The experts project that there will be plenty of work for the people who 
will lose their jobs when the base closes in 2011 and there is ample 
early interest from business entities that are eyeing what some consider 
to be the premier piece of commercial real estate that's available in 
Maine: the 3,200-acre Brunswick Naval Air Station.

But that doesn't mean the closure and redevelopment won't happen without 
casualties. The big question, the experts told a packed banquet hall at 
Captain Daniel Stone Inn on Wednesday, is exactly which industries will 
be affected and how much. The meeting was sponsored by the Southern 
Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/90942E9E4934F2DC0525715D00569384?Opendocument

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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