[CPEO-IRF] Devens (MA) recovers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

After base closure, more prosperity than ever

BY ROBERT COHEN AND J. SCOTT ORR
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER (NJ)
May 13, 2005

WASHINGTON -- It was in the summer of 1991 that the Pentagon's 
equivalent of the grim reaper came to the small towns of Ayer, Shirley 
and Harvard in Massachusetts.

The Base Realignment and Closure Commission had voted to shut down 26 
major military installations across the country, including Fort Devens, 
an Army training facility about 35 miles northwest of Boston.

The loss of its 15,000 military personnel and about 2,800 civilian jobs 
was expected to spell economic doom for the communities that had relied 
on the fort for sustenance since 1917.

Today, nearly 10 years after the last soldiers left Fort Devens, the 
region is thriving.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/111596006893920.xml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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