[CPEO-IRF] Developers at Brunswick (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developers accentuate the positive
Alliance urges outlook that sees BNAS closure as an opportunity, not a 
disaster

Christopher Cousins
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
February 3, 2006


TOPSHAM - The chatter that surrounds the effort to redevelop Brunswick 
Naval Air Station could have a damaging effect on development unless the 
message gets out that the economy here continues to thrive despite the 
base closure.

That was the theme Wednesday when a committee without a name met for the 
second time in its existence. The committee has no name because its 
members are still grappling with whether it should step into the public 
eye and join the "alphabet soup" of development organizations in the 
region or do its work on a behind-the-scenes basis.

The group's agenda was printed under the working title "Midcoast 
Regional Development Alliance" (MRDMA), but some of its members said the 
development community doesn't need another organization to add to what 
is already a confusing landscape of local groups with acronyms like 
BEDC, MCBDP, TDI and MCED. And then there's the BLRA, the TLRA and the 
GAC - all newly formed since the announcement that BNAS will be closed 
by 2011.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/684D94E937CC5D260525710A005757DA?Opendocument

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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
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