[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Brunswick [ME] getting private airport"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brunswick getting private airport

The Navy is giving 990 acres of BNAS land and aviation facilities to the 
redevelopment agency.

By Dennis Hoeydhoey
Portland Press Herald (ME)
February 4, 2011

More than 990 acres with runways, hangars and other aviation facilities 
will be given at no cost to the agency that is overseeing the 
redevelopment of the Brunswick Naval Air Station.

That means that in just two months, Brunswick will be home to a fully 
functional airport. The Brunswick Executive Airport will open for 
business April 2.

...

Levesque said the conveyance is a significant milestone in the 
redevelopment of the base from military to civilian use. "It represents 
the first major piece of property transferred to us by the Navy," he said.

The Navy discontinued use of its Brunswick base in January 2010. The 
base will officially be closed down -- the victim of a national effort 
to close military installations -- on May 31.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressherald.com/news/brunswick-getting-private-airport_2011-02-04.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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