[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Middletown (CT) Army Training Center

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army Change Of Heart?

Hartford Courant (CT)
June 4, 2008


Word that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may be considering an 
alternate site - a brownfield, no less - as the location for a regional 
military training base is very welcome.

Early this year, Army officials announced they were eyeing a 40-acre 
meadow along Freeman Road in southeastern Middletown's Maromas section 
for a 273,000-square-foot training center. The center is part of a 
planned consolidation of seven Army Reserve and Connecticut National 
Guard facilities in the state. Army officials said the Freeman Road site 
would be easy to develop and readily accessible by way of Route 9.

...

Recently, Middletown officials said the Army appears to have given up on 
the Freeman Road site in favor of another location on River Road 
opposite the NRG power plant.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-army.artjun04,0,2167748.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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