[CPEO-IRF] Pascagoula (MS) "not up for grabs just yet"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base is not up for grabs just yet
Naval Station winding down

By KAREN NELSON
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
January 17, 2006


PASCAGOULA - The frigates and cruisers are gone, the base is down to 175 
military personnel and the Navy is advertising it to other branches of 
the military and federal government that might be interested in the 
location.

Naval Station Pascagoula is still a base, but just barely as it goes 
through a process that started four days before Katrina when the Base 
Realignment and Closure Commission recommended to the president that it 
be closed, local development experts say.

Some lament that it would be nice to have the 437 acres with 324,000 
square feet of office and other space to redevelop posthaste, especially 
since Katrina created such a demand for business locations that Northrop 
Grumman Ship Systems recently converted retail space at the Singing 
River Mall into office space.

But George Freeland, with Jackson County's Economic Development 
Foundation, said the base and its assets aren't up for grabs. Not yet.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/13642277.htm

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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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