2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:53:31 -0800
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Bayonne Military Ocean Terminal (NJ) housing
 
Army releases deed to BLRA for development

By RONALD LEIR
Jersey Journal (NJ)
December 10, 2007

Five years after it transferred the former Military Ocean Terminal at
Bayonne to Bayonne, the Army has released the deed to certain portions
of the 430-acre property where it had forbidden residential or
recreational development because of soil contamination.

But now - for the first time since the Bayonne Local Redevelopment
Authority has controlled the land, and has since cleaned it up with the
help of $11 million in federal money - the long-awaited conversion of
the former military logistics base to a civilian mini-city can begin
with construction of the first new housing units, said BLRA Executive
Director Nancy Kist.

Kist said that honor will go to Trammel Crow, a Morristown firm, slated
to build 535 luxury rental apartments - including 16 "affordable" units
- on two new city blocks that will be carved out of seven acres in the
so-called "Bayonne Bay District" at what is now known as the Peninsula
at Bayonne Harbor.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-3/119727004655530.xml&coll=3

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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