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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Demolition at fort means progress

by TARA REILLY
Hagerstown Morning Herald (MD)
November 23, 2006

CASCADE - Barracks that were full during World War II and later used as 
administrative offices for the U.S. Army are seeing their final days.

The old bowling alley and thrift store are gone, and the land has been 
regraded.

Sections of the former movie theater's foundation still stand, but soon 
they will be removed and hauled to a dump.

The actions at the former Fort Ritchie U.S. Army base are signs that 
progress is taking place, after eight years of sitting largely vacant 
and undeveloped.

"It's nice to see activity here," PenMar Development Corp. Executive 
Director Richard Rook said Wednesday. "It's exciting. It really is."

PenMar is a state agency created in 1997 to redevelop the base, which 
the Army shut down in 1998.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=152672&format=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>
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