2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 31 Mar 2007 15:40:06 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Barbers Point (HI)
 
Kalaeloa picture clears after carrier decision
Military may still need facility for assault ship

By Derrick DePledge and William Cole
Honolulu Advertiser
March 31, 2007
	

The U.S. Navy's decision yesterday to shift the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier to San Diego instead of Pearl Harbor removes a shadow over the redevelopment of potentially valuable land at Kalaeloa in West O'ahu.

The possible relocation of the carrier to Pearl Harbor and its air wing to Kalaeloa had colored almost every new idea for land on or near the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station, from affordable housing and high-tech industry to minimum-security prisons and a world-class motorsports complex.

With the aircraft carrier now out of the picture, state officials and business leaders said they could look at the future of Kalaeloa with more certainty.

"There is more clarity about what would be the best use of the property out there," said Jim Tollefson, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawai'i.

Gov. Linda Lingle, who wants the state to purchase more land at Kalaeloa for housing and economic development, said the Navy's decision helps the state move forward.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070331/NEWS08/703310347/1001/NEWS

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