[CPEO-IRF] Navy Supply Corps School, Athens, GA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy could leave Athens early
Supply school may be vacated in 2010

By Blake Aued
Athens Banner-Herald (GA)
October 31, 2007

The Navy signed a contract Tuesday to begin construction on the Navy 
Supply Corps School's new home in Rhode Island, and the school could be 
leaving Athens earlier than expected.

The Navy has agreed to pay a Providence, R.I., firm $24.5 million to 
build one building and renovate another at Naval Station Newport. The 
buildings will include housing, classroom space and other facilities for 
the hundreds of sailors and Marines who now train in Athens. 
Construction is expected to take two years.

If all goes as planned, the Navy school could leave the Prince Avenue 
base it's called home for half a century within the next three years, 
clearing the way for a University of Georgia medical campus.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/110107/news_20071101051.shtml

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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>
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