[CPEO-IRF] Rhode Island reserve bases

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military reserve base in city to be closed


BY DANIEL BARBARISI
Providence Journal (RI)
June 13, 2006


WARWICK -- The Army's Lloyd S. Cooper III Reserve Base, a fixture on 
Sandy Lane for about a half-century, will be closed within four years, 
and the 5.2-acre complex has been offered to the city either for its own 
use or for resale to a developer.

The base is home to the 443rd Civil Affairs Battalion, which will be 
moved to a planned facility at the Newport naval base. Operations of the 
Bristol Army Reserve Center and of the Harwood Army Reserve Center, in 
Providence, also will be reassigned to the new Newport facility.

While the actual turnover of the Cooper base, at a price to be set by 
the Army Corps of Engineers, might not occur before 2010, the city is 
already mulling possibilities for the property, which includes a 
two-story brick, 26,000-square-foot building, a maintenance shop and a 
garage.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/metro/content/projo_20060613_w13base.129835a6.html

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Lenny Siegel
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