[CPEO-IRF] Housing proposal at former Navy site in Newport (RI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City urged to encourage housing plan at Anchorage site

Councilwoman Jeanne-Marie Napolitano wants the city to back a plan by
Church Community Housing Corp. for redevelopment in the Middletown
section of the Navy's North End.

By RICHARD SALIT
Providence Journal (RI
November 7, 2005

NEWPORT -- The city should lend its voice to off-again, on-again efforts
in Middletown to transform the Navy's former Anchorage housing site into
a mixed-use development with affordable housing, says City Councilwoman
Jeanne-Marie Napolitano.

The city has accomplished so much in the North End in recent years that
it should strive for similar progress in Middletown, according to a
resolution proposed by Napolitano. The resolution endorses a plan for
Church Community Housing Corp., of Newport, to acquire and redevelop the
Anchorage property, which the Navy privatized earlier this year.

Many months of talks between the Town of Middletown and GMH Military
Housing, which acquired the surplus apartment buildings from the Navy,
have yet to come to fruition. Recently, the talks got bogged down over
pollution issues at the 28-acre site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/eastbay/content/projo_20051107_nthouse7.121db21c.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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