2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 15 Dec 2006 19:43:32 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Fort Monmouth (NJ) redevelopment
 
Fort Monmouth redevelopment panel not yet in high gear

By JEFFREY GOLD
Associated Press
Newsday
December 15, 2006

NEWARK, N.J. -- The Army will withdraw from Fort Monmouth by September 2011, ending nearly a century in which it became a major economic force in New Jersey.

Five years might seem like a long time, but the people charged with finding post-Army uses for the fort's 1,100 acres feel they're already racing the clock.

At stake is the future of a sprawling area that lies along one of the Jersey shore's commercial corridors, Route 35, and touches scenic waterways.

No one expects the entire base, whose current mission includes high-tech communications work, to have new functions up and running by 2011. But Eatontown Mayor Gerry Tarantolo hopes some of the land will have a non-military use by then.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--fortmonmouth-econ1215dec15,0,7873652.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey

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