The community surrounding Umatilla Chemical Depot in northern Oregon received an early but well-earned Christmas gift last week, the result of a provision in the conference agreement for the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill requiring the reuse of the depot to follow the BRAC process and allowing the community to determine the site’s future …
Officials last week marked the Air Force’s conveyance of the final piece of 2,331 acres at England Air Force Base transferred to the England Authority since the installation closed in 1992. The base’s conversion into England Airpark in central Louisiana is considered one of the best examples of the redevelopment of a BRAC installation …
The reuse project at the former Fort Devens outside of Boston continues to grow despite the struggling economy and the closure of a large manufacturing plant earlier this year. A second hotel, a Hilton Garden Inn, opened on Devens Common last month. The first phase of New England Studios, a planned, $100 million television and movie studio complex, is expected to break ground shortly …
The third time did not prove to be the charm as the General Services Administration rejected the single bid it received from a local developer during last month’s auction for the former Stratford Army Engine Plant in Connecticut. Hartmann Development submitted a bid as part of a $1 billion plan to build a resort …
With the Fort Ord Reuse Authority set to expire in 2014, 20 years after it was established by the California legislature, local officials held a public forum last week to discuss the LRA’s future. Leaders broadly agreed the authority should be extended beyond its June 30, 2014, expiration date, leaving the primary question how to accomplish that …
The Navy will conduct an online auction for 2,036 acres at the former Naval Station Roosevelt Roads located on the eastern tip of Puerto Rico starting Feb. 13, the BRAC Program Management Office said this week. The auction will offer two separate parcels …
The Dallas-based real estate investment firm that purchased the former Memphis Defense Depot is hoping to build on the success achieved by the Depot Redevelopment Corp. over the previous 14 years. The new owners are planning a handful of changes intended to bring the property to the attention of real estate brokers and increase its occupancy …
The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority approved selling the land beneath 702 residential units at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine for $3.35 million, paving the way for the housing’s landlord to own the project outright. Affordable Midcoast Housing outbid the redevelopment authority to purchase the housing units — but not the 214 acres of land beneath them — last year …
The government’s latest attempt to dispose of the former Stratford Army Engine Plant in Connecticut yielded a single bid from a local developer for a proposed $1 billion resort. The GSA auction closed Nov. 18, but Hartmann Development has not yet heard whether the government will accept its $1 bid …
The McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority is looking for proposals from qualified firms to select a master developer to advance a 113-acre site at the former Fort McPherson through its development phases. The authority plans to turn the parcel into a commercial node for the overall redevelopment featuring a world-class science and technology park …