[CPEO-IRF] Brooks (TX) city-base a hot property

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Timing is everything for new Brooks 'facilitator'


Sig Christenson
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
March 22, 2006

The agency that runs Brooks City-Base introduced a new CEO on Tuesday 
who vows to raise the profile of the installation as the Air Force 
prepares to make its exit.

Donald Jakeway's problem, though, is that the Air Force may well take 
its sweet time leaving Brooks, preventing the commercial firms he hopes 
to attract from moving into some valuable real estate. The federal 
funding needed to move Air Force missions to other installations is 
uncertain.

"As much as I appreciate the Air Force — especially the science mission 
— they're lame-duck tenants for an indefinite length of time," said 
former Mayor Howard Peak, chairman of the Brooks Development Authority, 
which oversees the 1,246-acre property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA032206.01B.city-base.889c309.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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