[CPEO-IRF] Desiderio Army Reserve Center, Pasadena, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Finalists picked for Army site

By Molly R. Okeon
Pasadena Star-News (CA)
December 6, 2006

PASADENA - The Planning Commission narrowed the 11 proposals to replace 
the Desiderio Army Reserve Center down to four semifinalists Wednesday 
night.

The winners were the Arroyo Seco Foundation and California Art Club's 
Arroyo Center for Art and Environment, Habitat for Humanity's affordable 
housing and open space project, the city of Pasadena's multipurpose 
police and fire facility and Moule & Polyzoides' housing and art space 
proposal.

The city is under a tight deadline driven by the federal government to 
replace the 5.1-acre lot in the Arroyo Seco area, now occupied by the 
Army. The Army will move to a new site in the city of Bell some time 
before the base's closure in 2011.

The Desiderio Army Reserve Center, which consists of a two-story 
classroom building and garage at 665 Westminster Drive, was included in 
the final recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure 
Commission approved by Congress last November.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_4793981

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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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