Officials at Hill Air Force Base and local leaders on Wednesday celebrated the completion of the first building developed under the Falcon Hill enhanced use leasing project, a $1.5 billion collaboration among DOD, Woodbury Corp. and the state of Utah …
Taking advantage of the potential for solar development at military installations will require the federal government to overcome a number of hurdles, including the lack of transmission capacity and the need to clarify the status of “withdrawn lands,” according to a feasibility analysis released Friday by DOD’s office of Installations and Environment. The lack of transmission capacity is the single largest barrier to large-scale solar development at the seven California installations examined …
Four installations in California’s Mojave Desert offer the potential to generate 7,000 megawatts of solar energy that could be profitably tapped by the private sector with no capital investment required by the government, according to a comprehensive feasibility analysis released Friday by DOD’s office of Installations and Environment. The development could yield the federal government $100 million per year in revenue in the form of rental payments, discounted power or other in-kind consideration …
The Army’s Residential Communities Initiative program, providing more than 80,000 homes for soldiers’ families across 44 installations, is playing a major role in the service’s effort to conserve energy and reduce its carbon footprint. Within one year, more than 70 percent of the service’s privatized housing will be individually metered, a feature which so far has led to a 10 to 20 percent drop in energy consumption …
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Army Secretary John McHugh to approve construction of a co-generation steam and electric plant at Watervliet Arsenal under an enhanced use lease that is needed to attract hundreds of jobs to the site located outside of Albany. The Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership, the local development corporation for the arsenal, has proposed building the plant to support tenants that have high-power needs …
Legislation creating a civilian BRAC commission to expedite the disposal of unneeded federal properties would require $198 million in federal appropriations from fiscal 2012-2016, according to a cost estimate released last week by the Congressional Budget Office. About $157 million of that spending would be needed to operate the civilian property realignment commission created by the measure …
Constellation Energy and the Navy are negotiating details of an enhanced use lease at Naval Support Facility Indian Head, Md., which calls for construction of a 30-megawatt natural gas power plant, a 200,000-square-foot data center and a 250,000-square-foot office building. The project is estimated to cost between $300 million and $400 million and take up to 18 months to build …
Seven civilian families call Patrick AFB home, a move made possible after base officials lifted the restrictions two years ago on who could lease the installation’s family housing in an effort to increase the project’s occupancy rate. “I like the fact that we don’t have unwanted visitors …
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 …
Less than two weeks after being selected to develop and manage family housing at six northern Air Force bases, Balfour Beatty Communities has been chosen by the Air Force as the highest ranked offeror for two more installations, Dyess AFB, located near Abilene, Texas, and Moody AFB, located near Valdosta, Ga. …