[CPEO-IRF] Athens (GA) Life Sciences Center proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Life-sciences center may take site of Navy school

By Walter C. Jones, Morris News Service
Augusta Chronicle (GA)
February 1, 2006

ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue pictures a comprehensive, life-sciences 
research center on property soon to be abandoned in Athens with the 
closing of the Navy Supply Corps School, but he said it would be too 
early to talk about putting a second public medical school there.

Other proposals for commercial applications there continue to circulate 
as the state formulates a plan to present to the U.S. Department of 
Defense for land that the military will abandon in the coming years.

After the Base Closure and Realignment Commission announced in May that 
it was recommending the shuttering of the Navy school, Mr. Perdue said 
he was part of discussions with the University System of Georgia on 
plans for the property just a few miles from the main campus of the 
University of Georgia.

He said Monday in an interview with Morris News Service that he favors 
keeping the property as a site for an educational endeavor. His mother 
had attended college at the same site when it was home to the state's 
"normal school" or teacher's college.

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For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/020106/met_6403877.shtml

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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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