[CPEO-IRF] Concord (CA) want closure

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base closure is California city's dream
Pentagon plan would clear way for development

By Bobby Caina Calvan
Boston Globe Correspondent
May 23, 2005

CONCORD, Calif. -- When the Pentagon announced this month its latest
list of proposed base closings, people in this San Francisco suburb,
like so many others across the country, hoped for the best.

But while other communities nationwide fretted about the possible
shutdown of their military installations, Concord civic leaders took a
seemingly peculiar step: They lobbied the Pentagon to close the city's
naval weapons station.

Concord wants the site because the facility occupies 13,000 acres of
waterfront, marshland, and inland meadows that compose one of the
largest remaining undeveloped properties in the heavily urbanized San
Francisco Bay Area.

The Pentagon obliged, saying on May 13 that it would release 5,100 acres
of prime real estate at the weapons station to the civilian sector as
part of the Pentagon's latest round of base realignment and closure recommendations.

...

For the entire article
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/23/base_closure_is_california_citys_dream

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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