[CPEO-IRF] New Jersey looks at Ft. Devens (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort reuse board looks at former Mass. base
Congress expected to vote on final BRAC listing on Nov. 8

BY SUE MORGAN
Atlanticville (NJ)
October 27, 2005

EATONTOWN — A onetime military base in Massachusetts that now is host to 
an industrial park, hotel-conference center, and housing could serve as 
a model for how Fort Monmouth’s facilities could be revived if it closes 
as expected.

But whether or not the members of the recently organized Fort Monmouth 
Reuse Committee (FMRC) look to the former Fort Devens in Massachusetts 
as a prototype of how to best redevelop a closed military base is not 
the most pressing issue, according to Eatontown Mayor Gerald Tarantolo, 
who co-chairs the committee.

What matters is that the FMRC begins planning and working now to make 
the fort viable and economically profitable as soon as possible after 
its anticipated closing under the Pentagon’s Base Realignment and 
Closure (BRAC) process in 2011, he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://atlanticville.gmnews.com/news/2005/1027/Front_Page/020.html

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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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