[CPEO-IRF] Brooks City-Base (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[As this article points out, San Antonio's forward-looking approach put 
it an excellent position to adjust to both increases and decreases in 
Air Force activity. This strategy would make sense at other bases that 
remain active, but with a lower level of activity, after BRAC 2005, 
except that the Defense Department targeted leased space in its closure 
proposal this year. - LS]


Brooks City-Base officials seeing beyond BRAC

L.A. Lorek
San Antonio Express-News
July 3, 2005

If the Pentagon moves the Air Force out of Brooks City-Base, officials 
plan to continue developing the research park.

Under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, known as 
BRAC, the Defense Department would relocate the Air Force's nearly 3,000 
workers and civilian jobs to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Brooks has an 
estimated economic impact of more than $400 million in San Antonio. But 
some of the Air Force's employees may move to other San Antonio bases.

The Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory is scheduled to move to another 
base. The move would be a difficult one since the lab has more than 
50,000 artifacts including some reconstructed helicopter and plane 
cockpits. The fate of the lab will become more clear after the July 11th 
BRAC meeting in San Antonio and the final recommendation for base 
closures and mission moves comes out in September.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA070305.6R.Brooks.226883c9.html

--
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
http://www.cpeo.org

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