[CPEO-IRF] Fort Gillem (GA) redevelopment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Gillem redevelopment moves forward in Forest Park

By Daniel Silliman
Henry Daily News (GA)
April 2, 2007

The possibilities have opened up in the redevelopment of Fort Gillem, 
and the public and redevelopment authorities are thinking they want a 
little bit of everything.
The redevelopment’s second phase — planning — took a big step forward 
late last month when the Federal Emergency Management Agency decided it 
didn’t want 300 acres in the center of the Forest Park fort.
FEMA was only considering taking about 25 percent of the available land 
at the fort, but the land was in the middle of the closing military base 
and had forced the Local Redevelopment Authority to consider plans to 
build in disconnected and disjointed developments, said Shane Short, LRA 
chairman and president of the Clayton County Chamber of Commerce.
“What they wanted was the very heart of the property,” Short said. “Now, 
this allows us to properly design the development without having to work 
around two or three sides of the property. It allows for us to put in a 
contiguous design.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.henryherald.com/local/local_story_092205239.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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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