[CPEO-IRF] Charleston Navy Base (SC) memorial

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tribute work set to begin
Riverfront Park to be transformed by Navy memorial

BY WARREN WISE
Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
July 2, 2006

Fourth of July visitors entering North Charleston's Riverfront Park this 
year will not see the same park this time next year.

That's because next year the long-awaited Navy base memorial will be in 
the throes of construction at the park's southern end, which also serves 
as the park's entry point.

Officials plan to break ground on the $2 million addition beside the 
fountain later this year, start building in early 2007 and finish within 
10-12 months, Greater Charleston Naval Base Memorial Committee Chairman 
Ed Fava said.

The 2.5-acre addition will include bronze sculptures of a ballistic 
missile submarine, a landing craft and a destroyer-type vessel, the 
three vessels most associated with the sprawling former Navy base. The 
base was the centerpiece of life in North Charleston from 1901, when the 
first tracts of old plantation land were bought for the Navy, to 1995, 
when the base fell victim to closure at the end of the Cold War.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=95816&section=localnews

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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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