[CPEO-IRF] San Diego's Navy Broadway Complex (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BRAC panel spares MCRD, eyes Navy Broadway complex for closure

By Otto Kreisher
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE/San Diego Union-Tribune
July 19, 2005


The base-closures commission voted against putting the Marine Corps 
Recruit Depot on the closure list even though several commissioners had 
wanted to consider merging it with the service's other recruiting 
facility in Parris Island, S.C.
WASHINGTON – The independent base realignment and closure commission 
Tuesday added the Navy's Broadway headquarters complex in downtown San 
Diego to the list of facilities being considered for closure, but voted 
down a proposal to put the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on the list.

The commissioners voted 8-to-1 to include the Broadway complex for 
consideration with the understanding that the Navy was negotiating with 
developers to trade the valuable harbor-front site for construction of 
hundreds of military housing units in the county.

The relocation of the Navy and civilian workers from the three buildings 
at the complex to one of the Navy bases in San Diego also would improve 
security, commissioners said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20050719-1605-cnsadds.html

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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