[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Ritchie (MD) plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

4,500 jobs planned at former fort

By Jim Hook
Chambersburg Public Opinion (MD)
October 24, 2006

Bulldozers tore into an old barracks at Fort Ritchie as officials on 
Monday celebrated the sale of the former Army base to a Maryland developer.

Infrastructure improvements will begin in spring and businesses will 
begin arriving next year, according to Randall M. Griffin, president and 
CEO of Corporate Office Properties Trust, based in Columbia, Md.

COPT plans for at least 4,500 jobs and a surrounding residential community:

- Government agencies will relocate from the Washington, D.C., area.

- Employees will live nearby and be able to walk to work.

- Fort Ritchie will be developed over 10 to 15 years.

COPT purchased the 591-acre installation on Oct. 5 from PenMar 
Development Corp. for $5 million.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/localnews/ci_4539731

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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