Former military airfields and joint use airports have two months to apply to participate in the FAA’s Military Airport Program, a valuable source of funding for capital improvements. The fiscal 2012 MAP has eight slots available for new participants or existing participants eligible for redesignation …
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is planning to recommend that President Obama declare Fort Monroe a national monument, the Virginian-Pilot reported Wednesday. Salazar has talked with state and local officials about the possibility of Monroe becoming a unit of the National Park Service system through a presidential proclamation …
The LRA for the former Naval Air Station Brunswick became the latest beneficiary of recent changes to the rules governing EDCs after reaching a deal with the Navy over the transfer of about 1,100 acres at the base located on the coast of Maine. Under the agreement, the LRA will sign a $3 million promissory note with the Navy, requiring the authority to make annual payments over 20 years …
After holding final inactivation ceremonies last week, officials are getting Onizuka Air Force Station ready to host at least three new tenants. The Sunnyvale, Calif., facility was closed under BRAC, with its satellite command and control mission transferred to Vandenberg AFB …
The city’s redevelopment of the former Hunters Point Shipyard can move forward, after a favorable ruling in San Francisco Superior Court in the last in a series of lawsuits over the project’s environmental impacts. Judge Ernest Goldsmith ruled last week that the project’s environmental impact report complied with the state law with one exception …
Following Thursday’s closure of Fort Monmouth, the work of the installation’s LRA began “in earnest,” said Executive Director Bruce Steadman. Now the LRA will be able to show the 1,100-acre property to prospective tenants and buyers. The Army still owns the site, but the LRA plans to obtain parcels as the need arises so it can sell or lease them …
The Navy and the LRA for the former NAS South Weymouth signed a term sheet for the economic development conveyance of a 681-acre parcel the authority could obtain before the end of the year. The term sheet outlines the legal terms of the deal the two parties reached in July, as well as plans for the Navy to finish cleaning up the base …
The city of Mesa, Ariz., has awarded a contract to Dover, N.H.-based RKG Associates to help it acquire and redevelop the former Air Force Research Lab, an eight-acre facility closed as a result of BRAC 2005. Mesa is planning to acquire the property through an economic development conveyance …
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to turn 10 acres at Fort McPherson into a healthcare campus that would provide primary care, mental health, dental, lab, radiology and audiology services. The agency will renovate a 74,000-square-foot building at McPherson that once was a health clinic and convert it into an outpatient clinic …
Fort Monmouth, NJ, will be closing this Thursday, September 15, marking the end of its 93-year run as an Army base. Two official ceremonies are scheduled to formally close the New Jersey fort; the inactivation and color casing ceremony took place on Tuesday, and the final closing ceremony will be …