[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Gillem (GA) reuse plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Gillem plan to be finalized

By Daniel Silliman
Clayton News-Daily (GA)
May 22, 2007

The panel considering the redevelopment of the Army's Fort Gillem will 
spend the next week considering the finalized, recommended plan for the 
future of the base, after hearing from professional planners tonight.

"We want them to think about it and apply their own judgment," said Fred 
Bryant, executive director of the Forest Park/Fort Gillem Local 
Redevelopment Authority. "We could take a vote tonight but we don't want 
to rush them all. We want them to think about it. We hope, in that way, 
they'll make a fully informed decision."

...

The accepted plan for the future of the 65-year-old, 1,500-acre Army 
installation being vacated by the soldiers no later than September 2011, 
will take one of three directions.

The LRA will decide whether to dedicated the 1,200 available acres to 
light industrial development, mixed-use development built around a 
central circle of greenspace, or transform it into mostly retail 
outlets, with a secondary development of single- and multiple-family 
housing.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.news-daily.com/local/local_story_142230637.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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