Posts Tagged ‘local redevelopment authority’

The Obama administration is objecting to language in the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill that would extend liability protections for undiscovered contamination afforded developers of installations closed via BRAC to all installations closed after Oct. 24, 1988. The provision essentially would extend the indemnity now provided by Section 330 of the 1993 defense authorization bill to bases closed outside of the BRAC process …

The Port of Corpus Christi reached a sales agreement this week with Oxy Ingleside Property Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp., for 816 acres at the former Naval Station Ingleside and an adjacent parcel for $82.1 million. Closing on the sale is expected to take place in August. The sale covers the entire naval station property — except for a 100-acre campus section — along with 435 acres next door …

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority approved three loans totaling $4.5 million this week to cover engineering and construction costs needed to start renovating the former Fort Monmouth. At the same time, the authority is looking for a broker to attract developers to the 1,200-acre site, reported the Star-Ledger. The authority on Tuesday also approved an agreement to sell land at the post to information management firm CommVault Systems. In March, the authority awarded the firm $8.6 million in incentives to create and retain new jobs at Monmouth. “What we want to do is recreate a community at the base — a community of people living and working at the base, which will bring back tax ratables and jobs to the three communities and the county,” said Caren Franzini, the authority’s CEO.

The Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco received $7.3 million last week for job training and housing assistance courtesy of Lennar Urban, the developer behind the $1.2 billion makeover of the 700-acre site of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The check is the first installment of a proposed $37.5 million designated for community benefits …

A ceremony last week at the former Charles Kelly Support Facility outside of Pittsburgh kicked off demolition of 10 dilapidated Army office buildings and barracks at the future site of a park for Collier Township. Reuse planning for the support facility started after it was designated for closure during the 2005 round of base closures. The township obtained 72 acres of the site for the park. A $150,000 grant from Allegheny County is covering much of the cost of demolition. Construction of a multipurpose field, tennis courts, dek hockey rink and playground is scheduled to begin after the demolition is complete, reported the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Most of the funds from a $6 million bond issuance will go toward the project.

A bill approved by the New Hampshire Senate extending by 30 years the period during which the LRA for the former Pease Air Force Base maintains control over land use of the property is sparking opposition from the base’s host communities. The bill would push back the date for transferring regulatory authority over much of the property at Pease International Tradeport to the communities from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan. 1, 2050 …

Redevelopment efforts at Treasure Island and Hunters Point Shipyard still will be managed by the city, San Francisco officials announced in the wake of last year’s law eliminating California’s 400 redevelopment agencies. After the city shuttered the successor to its redevelopment agency March 30, officials working on those projects were transferred to several offices, including the city administrator’s office, the mayor’s office of housing and the Port of San Francisco …

Voters in two of the three towns with veto power over zoning changes at Devens defeated a plan to convert a barracks complex into affordable housing for military veterans and the elderly, leaving the future of historic Vicksburg Square up in the air. Under the law that governs the redevelopment at the former Fort Devens in eastern Massachusetts, a no vote by any one of the three towns — Ayer, Harvard or Shirley — is sufficient to overturn zoning changes …

After years of delays, construction at SouthField, the reuse project at the former NAS South Weymouth, is under way and the first residents have moved in. Ten tenants have moved into an apartment complex and 24 residents have moved into single-family homes in the project’s first neighborhood, SouthField Highlands …

The local redevelopment authorities for the former Norton and George Air Force bases in San Bernardino County, Calif., plan to ask a state court for injunctions exempting them from last year’s law eliminating the state’s 400 redevelopment agencies. The Inland Valley Development Agency, the LRA for Norton AFB, will argue that it was not established under the same legislation that allows local governments to create municipal redevelopment agencies …