[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Army chooses Westfield (CT) training site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army Eyeing New Training Site In Middletown

By JOSH KOVNER
Hartford Courant (CT)
July 2, 2008

MIDDLETOWN —

Repelled at Freeman Road, the Army has moved across town and chosen a 
Westfield site for a huge regional training base — and now a new set of 
neighbors is expressing equally fervent, though different, concerns.

Westfield residents who live near the proposed site — an 88-acre 
property at Middle Street and Boardman Lane that is zoned for industry — 
told the Army Corps of Engineers at a recent meeting they are concerned 
about heavy traffic and convinced the city will miss out on any economic 
benefit from the base.

The neighbors feel the 150 full-time workers and the 800 citizen 
soldiers who would train at the Army Reserve and Connecticut National 
Guard facility on weekends would likely eat, shop, or stay over in 
neighboring Cromwell or Berlin, rather than in downtown Middletown, 
depriving the city of any of the perks from the 273,000-square-foot complex.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/news/local/mr/middletown/hc-midarmy0702.artjul02,0,7192014.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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Fax: 650/961-8918
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