[CPEO-IRF] Aberdeen Proving Ground (MD) developer chosen

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

D.C. developer wins contract for new APG complex
Facility to house 5,000 workers moving to Md. from New Jersey under BRAC 
plan

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
September 26, 2007

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $477.5 million contract Wednesday 
to design and build a new office and laboratory complex at Aberdeen 
Proving Ground for the high-tech military jobs to be moved there from 
Fort Monmouth in New Jersey.

The contract award to a Washington-based development team was welcomed 
by Maryland politicians and by supporters of the proving ground as 
evidence of the Army's commitment to this controversial component of the 
sweeping military base closure and realignment ordered by Congress in 2005.

New Jersey politicians have sought congressional action to block closure 
of the 90-year-old fort, and a union representing Monmouth workers filed 
a federal lawsuit. But the Asbury Park Press reported Wednesday that the 
union failed in a bid to get an injunction barring the Army from going 
forward with the construction of the new "Center of Excellence" complex 
at Aberdeen.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/harford/bal-brac0926,0,5987924.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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