The Horsham LRA and the city council endorsed a walkable town center and a balance of other uses as key ingredients in the reuse plan for the former Naval Air Station Willow Grove during a public meeting Wednesday. The other elements will include housing, an office park, a hotel and conference center, open space and, possibly, an indoor regional sports complex …
Town councilors in Weymouth, Mass., are asking why the LRA for the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station has agreed to pay the Navy an estimated $25 million for a 700-acre EDC when the city of Alameda will be obtaining a 900-acre EDC at no cost at the former Naval Air Station Alameda. “If it’s good enough for Alameda, it should be good enough for us …
The agreement the Navy and the city of Alameda struck last month over the terms of the transfer of a 918-acre parcel at the former Naval Air Station Alameda was the direct result of the city’s decision to return to the base’s original reuse plan, one that emphasized job growth over housing …
After several previous attempts to dispose of the former Stratford Army Engine Plant in Connecticut fizzled, the government is offering the 77-acre site “under new and innovative sale terms.” Essentially, the property, since renamed Point Stratford, will be sold for the cost to clean it up …
The Navy has disposed of the last remaining parcel at the former Naval Station Ingleside, transferring the installation’s 155-acre electromagnetic reduction facility earlier this month to a local company that manufactures offshore projects for the oil and gas industry. Kiewit Offshore Services last month submitted the only conforming bid during the Navy’s public auction of the property …
A Small Business Administration program funding grants for technical assistance to BRAC communities would be eliminated under a set of recommendations sent by Republican members of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee to the congressional deficit reduction committee last week. The defense transitional assistance grants, which provide matching funds to communities for programs aiding small businesses, “are ineffective and no longer in demand …
Two new tenants will be moving into the former Riverbank AAP shortly, giving the northern California redevelopment project more than two dozen tenants. Denver-based Repsco, which uses recycled plastics to make shipping materials, plans to start operations with 10 workers early next year …
A raft of factors explains why the city of Irvine’s vision for transforming former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Southern California is still years from fruition, according to a story in the Orange County Register. For starters, officials’ claims that elements of the Orange County Great Park would be completed within several years were not realistic …
The city of Mesa, Ariz., is moving ahead with its vision for turning the former Air Force Research Laboratory into a science and technology research center, rebranding the facility as the Arizona Laboratories for Security and Defense Research and hiring a McLean, Va.-based contractor to manage and promote it …
A four-square block area containing World War II-era Army barracks buildings at the former Fort Chaffee in western Arkansas has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority said last week. The Camp Chaffee Tank Destroyer Battalion District is best known for housing the Barbershop Museum where Elvis Presley received his famous Army buzz cut in 1958 …