[CPEO-IRF] New Orleans (LA) Naval Support Activity

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[The New Orleans Naval Support Activity, located on the west side of the 
Mississippi River, was spared the worst of last year's devastating 
hurricanes. - LS]

Planning for federal city to gear up
Retired Marine leads push to revamp base

By Paul Purpura
New Orleans Times-Picayune
June 11, 2006

Two firms have been hired to jump-start the transformation of the Naval 
Support Activity's Algiers site into a federal campus for military and 
government agencies.

The Algiers Development District board, which is providing money to the 
"federal city" project, recently hired Apogen Technologies to tap the 
work of one of its senior vice presidents, Maj. Gen. David Mize, who is 
chairman of the Mayor's Military Advisory Committee, said state Rep. Jim 
Tucker, R-Algiers, the ADD's chairman.

Apogen was given a six-month, $46,000 consulting contract that will 
allow Mize, the retired Marine who voluntarily led the region's effort 
to retain a military presence, to oversee the campus's development, 
Tucker said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-15/115001152853350.xml&coll=1

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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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