Four communities benefiting from growth at a neighboring military installation led the nation in personal income growth in 2010, with Elizabethtown, Ky., earning the top spot due in large part to an influx of thousands of service members and civilians relocating to Fort Knox as a result of BRAC …
BRAC growth may result in only 22,000 soldiers, DOD civilians, contractors and their dependents coming to Fort Benning, a 6,000-person drop from the estimate officials had been using for the past several years. Factors behind the lower projection include tighter budgets, units leaving or being deactivated at the western Georgia post and a reduction in the number of personnel needed to run the Armor School …
While school districts neighboring Ft. Benning have yet to see hard evidence that an influx of students will be enrolling for the coming school year, schools located on the post are getting ready for swelling enrollments as BRAC growth arrives in full force. “Last year we had 355 students. We are at 400 as of a few minutes ago, and we’re expecting another 100 more between now and Christmas …
The enormous infusion of personnel at Fort Bliss will increase the post’s population from 25,000 soldiers now to 30,000 by 2014, establishing the installation as one of the Army’s premier “power projection platforms,” Bliss’ commanding general said Wednesday …
Balfour Beatty Communities LLC will construct 564 townhomes at Fort Bliss, Texas, and renovate 220 homes at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., as part of an expansion effort at its family housing projects at the two sites. The work, which is expected to be completed in 2014, comes in response to a significant increase in military strength at both installations …
The Columbus, Ga., metro area is starting to feel the impact of the thousands of soldiers, DOD civilians, contractors and dependents coming to Fort Benning as a result of BRAC, according to a quick survey conducted by the Ledger-Enquirer. A Columbus homebuilder is attributing 60 of the 200-plus home sales he is expecting this year to BRAC growth …
In her opening remarks prior to a BRAC 2005 media event, Katherine Hammack summed up the tremendous strides the Army has taken over the previous six years. She noted the gains the Army has made from repositioning and rebalancing its forces, creating new centers of excellence and restructuring the Reserves, before pointing out the enormous contribution the Army’s $18 billion BRAC construction effort has made to support the economy …
Two school districts in south Colorado Springs, Colo., expecting to enroll dozens of more students stemming from growth at Fort Carson, stand to gain increased state funding. Fountain-Fort Carson District 8 — where students from military families or others working at the post make up 68 percent of the school’s enrollment — estimates it will receive $600,000 from the state based on adding 104 new students …
The northern Virginia region surrounding Marine Corps Base Quantico may have survived the BRAC growth coming to the installation. Many of the 2,000 federal employees slated to transfer to Quantico already have arrived without generating significant traffic congestion or an influx of new students in the schools of Prince William and Stafford counties …
As the completion of the first building at Redstone Gateway — the $1 billion office park at Redstone Arsenal being developed under the EUL program — approaches in the fall, the company that is leading the effort has high expectations for the project. “It is not a normal office park. It is a first-class office park …