[CPEO-IRF] Fort Monmouth (NJ) redevelopment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Monmouth redevelopment panel not yet in high gear

By JEFFREY GOLD
Associated Press
Newsday
December 15, 2006

NEWARK, N.J. -- The Army will withdraw from Fort Monmouth by September 
2011, ending nearly a century in which it became a major economic force 
in New Jersey.

Five years might seem like a long time, but the people charged with 
finding post-Army uses for the fort's 1,100 acres feel they're already 
racing the clock.

At stake is the future of a sprawling area that lies along one of the 
Jersey shore's commercial corridors, Route 35, and touches scenic waterways.

No one expects the entire base, whose current mission includes high-tech 
communications work, to have new functions up and running by 2011. But 
Eatontown Mayor Gerry Tarantolo hopes some of the land will have a 
non-military use by then.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--fortmonmouth-econ1215dec15,0,7873652.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey

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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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