[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Port San Antonio [Kelly Air Force Base, TX] may have lessons for Wichita"

[Lenny Siegel <LSIEGEL@CPEO.ORG>]

Port San Antonio may have lessons for Wichita

By Molly McMillin
Wichita Eagle (KS)
May 13, 2012

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War led to  
military budget cuts and base closures across the country.

Yet the 1995 announcement that Kelly Air Force Base - a presence in  
San Antonio since 1916 - would close stunned the city.

"It wasn't even on the agenda," recalls Bexar County Judge Nelson  
Wolff, the mayor of San Antonio at the time. "The shock was  
unbelievable."

Today, the former base boasts 80 employers and about 14,000  
employees, generating more than $4 billion a year in economic impact.  
Major employers include Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney and  
Gore Design Completions.

There may be some lessons in the creation and growth of Port San  
Antonio - as the base is now called - as Wichita faces the closure of  
its Boeing plant, San Antonio leaders say.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kansas.com/2012/05/13/2333080/port-san-antonio-may-have- 
lessons.html#0_undefined,0_

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Lenny Siegel
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