[CPEO-IRF] Lowry AFB (CO) success story

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Denver community proves there's life after a base closes
It holds lessons for latest communities on closure list.

By Mark Sappenfield
Christian Science Monitor
November 8, 2005

DENVER - When the long and winding path of the Pentagon's base-closure 
process comes to an end Tuesday, as the list of bases to shutter becomes 
law, scores of towns across the country will take their first steps 
toward an uncertain future - shorn of the military jobs and identity 
that defined them for generations.

Yet here, not far from what was once Lowry Air Force Base's Runway 4, 
Amy Ford pushes her daughter on a park swing, surrounded by new homes 
and fresh-cut lawns. Now, 11 years after the base closed, Lowry is one 
of Denver's trendiest neighborhoods - and living proof that there is 
life after Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC).

Although Lowry has had the good fortune of being near one of America's 
fastest-growing cities, it has matched those advantages with foresight, 
strong cooperation, and determination to plow through a process often 
fraught with bureaucratic frustrations. Now, as more towns face the 
prospect of life without their bases, Lowry serves as a road map of what 
these communities must do if they are not only to survive, but flourish.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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