[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: South Weymouth Naval Air Station (MA) squabbling

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Squabbling stalls South Weymouth Naval Air Station redevelopment

By Jack Encarnacao
Quincy Patriot Ledger (MA)
June 13, 2009

WEYMOUTH -

First, there was talk of turning it into an airport, then a mega-mall 
and office complex, ideas that amounted to nothing.

Then along came developer LNR Property Corp. with plans for a complex of 
residential villages, a movie and TV studio, retail shops, a golf course 
and a sports complex, and it looked as if the former South Weymouth 
Naval air Station would have a new life.

But more than a decade after voters in Weymouth, Abington and Rockland, 
where the former base is located, approved the redevelopment plan, the 
future of the base is as uncertain as ever.

The project's completion date has been pushed nearly into 2020. The 
base's overseers, South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp., says it fears 
it may go out of business this year. Deadline after deadline to cut a 
final deal with the Navy has passed.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.enterprisenews.com/business/x1592251296/Squabbling-stalls-South-Weymouth-Naval-Air-Station-redevelopment

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