[CPEO-IRF] Eglin Air Force Base (FL) growth

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bracing for the boom
Thousands of military jobs coming -- will Santa Rosa be ready?


William Rabb
Pensacola News Journal (FL)
June 4, 2006


Santa Rosa County could see the largest influx of people in its history 
in the next decade, thanks in part to the realignment of military 
operations from throughout the nation to neighboring Eglin Air Force Base.

By some estimates, the expansion will bring hundreds of jobs and as many 
as 20,000 new military personnel, contractors, service workers and their 
families to the sprawling base and surrounding communities.

That translates to almost $500 million a year for local economies, 
according to a study done last year by University of West Florida 
economists.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060604/NEWS01/606040320/1006
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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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