Posts Tagged ‘base redevelopment/environmental cleanup’

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown last week highlighted the renewed designation of Heath-Newark-Licking County Port Authority, the central Ohio site of the former Newark Air Force Base, as a Small Business Administration HUBZone through 2015. An amendment attached to the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill that was sponsored by Brown extends the period during which certain base closure sites can be designated as HUBZones, a status conferring preferential access to federal procurements for qualified small businesses …

MassDevelopment is looking for a developer to build housing on a 70-acre site at the former Fort Devens located outside of Boston. The agency expects 120 units to be constructed, with 25 percent reserved for low- and moderate-income residents. Allowed uses include single-, two- and multi-family housing, along with elder housing, nursing homes and municipal uses, reported the Boston Business Journal. Last year, residents from the towns of Harvard and Ayer rejected a developer’s plan to turn former barracks at another site at the 4,400-acre redevelopment project into 246 units of affordable housing for seniors and veterans. Devens hosts 99 businesses, nonprofits and governmental entities that employ more than 3,200 workers, according to the Journal.

On the 20-year anniversary of the closure of Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, S.C., the Sun News recounts the numerous difficulties facing local officials trying to redevelop the 3,937-acre installation. Today, the former base is the home of a variety of uses, highlighted by the Market Common, a town center with upscale shops and restaurants, and neighborhoods with more than 1,200 homes that follow the principles of New Urbanism. The project also features new general aviation and commercial airport terminals, and a technology and aerospace business park …

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will try to help close a deal between the state-supported China Development Bank and Lennar Corp. to invest $1.7 billion in two base redevelopment projects during his eight-day trip to China that began Friday. Lee is expected to sit down with officials from the Chinese bank to discuss the investment in the redevelopment of two former Navy bases, Treasure Island and Hunters Point Naval Shipyard …

The Army unexpectedly transferred 313 acres at the former Fort Monroe on Thursday to the site’s LRA, leaving a series of unanswered questions regarding the ongoing environmental cleanup, the border of the property reverting to Virginia and other matters. The Army and state officials had been discussing for more than a year the terms of how the Army would transfer the portion of the 570-acre post slated to revert to the commonwealth. The negotiations were intended to resolve who is responsible for the cleanup, long-term building maintenance, and the transfer of utilities and roads, reported the Daily Press …

A comprehensive cleanup of groundwater and soil at the former Schilling Air Force Base in central Kansas moved one step closer to being realized after the city of Salina, other local entities and the federal government filed a settlement agreement this week with the U.S. District Court in Kansas City. The $9.4 million agreement, which still needs to be approved by a federal judge, covers only the estimated cost of a remedial investigation, feasibility study and corrective action decision, and does not include the cleanup …

The Air Force has now transferred ownership of more than 3,500 acres of the former Mather Air Force Base to Sacramento County, Calif. A single parcel, approximately 720 acres, is still held by the Air Force.

Air Force Civil Engineer Center Officials, who oversee the property transfer, are optimistic that the whole base transfer will be completed in 2013. The transfer of the remaining parcel of land awaits approval from the Office of Economic Adjustment.

The LRA for the former Naval Air Station Willow Grove intends to act as master developer for the 862-acre property, and now is preparing an application for an economic development conveyance to obtain the entire site. The LRA’s consultant, Matrix Design Group, is working on the project’s business plan, which it plans to complete later this year. The Navy and the Horsham LRA likely won’t complete negotiations over an EDC before March 2014 …

Discussions between the Army and Point Stratford Renewal over the purchase of the former Stratford Army Engine Plant in Connecticut still have not been completed, more than six months after the federal government selected the Connecticut-based development team. The developer has agreed to assume responsibility for cleaning up the 77-acre site but wants the Army to clean up the mudflats along the Housatonic River. The Army is discussing the issue with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection …

Nine teams are competing to be named the master developer for the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Upper Northwest Washington, District officials announced last week. The robust level of interest comes as much-needed relief for the city, after it received a total of only three responses to a pair of other projects recently …