[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Portland (OR) Army Reserve post

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City proposes housing at Army Reserve property in Multnomah Village

Portland Business Journal
June 23, 2008

A picturesque Army Reserve post in Multnomah Village will be developed 
with low-income and emergency housing under a plan scheduled to go 
before the Portland City Council on Wednesday.

Together with a separate facility in North Portland, the Sgt. Jerome 
Sears United States Army Reserve Center was targeted for closure by the 
U.S. Department of Defense in the 2005 Defense Base Closure and 
Realignment. Both posts will close by 2011 and training operations will 
move to a third site.

The federal government will donate the properties and has the final say 
on how they are used. The government has a preference for projects that 
target education or low-income housing. For the Sears property, local 
organizations had hoped the city would adopt a low-impact plan that 
maintains the small property's pastoral nature.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/06/23/daily12.html

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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
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