[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, PRESERVATION: Condition Analysis and Rehabilitation Plan for Hangar One, Moffett Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

NASA report: New Hangar One skin cheaper than demolition

Mountain View Voice (CA)
December 22, 2011

Congress take note: a new NASA report says that demolishing Moffett  
Field icon Hangar One is more costly than replacing its toxic siding.

Pleasantly surprising preservationists, the Condition Analysis and  
Rehabilitation Plan for Hangar One, released Dec. 16, puts the cost  
of demolishing Hangar One at $44.4 million, while doing the bare  
minimum to save the hangar, installing a new skin, would cost $40.7  
million.

The report's "findings are good for the hangar's future," said Lenny  
Siegel, leader of the Save Hangar One Committee in an email. "Not  
only does demolition not make historical sense, it would actually  
cost more money than making the building watertight."



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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=5089&e=y


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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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