[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Monroe (VA) national park

["lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Should fort become a national park?
At a community forum Thursday night, some suggested the idea was an
opportunity. Others prefer new development.

BY JIM HODGES
Hampton Roads Daily Press (VA)
February 24, 2006

HAMPTON -- For those who have long thought of Fort Monroe as a city asset
and now consider it an economic opportunity for the city, there was a
disagreeing opinion.

"We consider historic Fort Monroe a national treasure," Louis Guy,
president of the Norfolk Historical Society, told a town hall meeting
Thursday in Phoebus.

For those who anticipate the loss of 7 percent of Hampton's economy being
remedied by taxes from new construction on waterfront property when Fort
Monroe closes in 2011, there was the suggestion of a greater good.

It should be a national park with a historic bent, more than one person
told the audience of about 200 and WHRO television cameras at the American
Theater.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-77290sy0feb24,0,5380632.story?coll=d
p-news-local-final

-- 
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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