[CPEO-IRF] NASA Research Park at Moffett Field

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Military Base Reuse: How Moffett Field became NASA Research Park
NASA Research Park's success demonstrates the advantages of locating at 
a converted military base, as well as the challenges inherent in such sites.

By David L. R. Shiver, Principal, Bay Area Economics
Business Facilities
October, 2007

Among the 97 major military bases closed by the Department of Defense 
over the past 15 years, the 1,200-acre former Naval air station Moffett 
Field, located in California's Silicon Valley, stands out as a unique 
example of an effective military base reutilization.

Moffett Field was established by the U.S. Navy in 1933 to house the USS 
Macon, a 785-foot long dirigible that provided long-range reconnaissance 
in support of the Pacific Fleet. It served for only eight missions 
before it crashed off the California coast in 1935. During World War II, 
the air station served as a center for lighter-than-air aircraft and 
later for Naval jet pilot training up until its closure in 1994.

In a federal-to-federal agency transfer, the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration's (NASA) Ames Research Center assumed management of 
the adjacent Moffett Airfield facility, and operated Moffett as a closed 
federal enclave with other federal tenants for several years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.businessfacilities.com/bf_07_10_cover1a.php

See also the article in the November 2, 2007 Mountain View Voice:
http://www.mv-voice.com/index.paper.php.

--


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



_______________________________________________
Installation_Reuse_Forum mailing list
Installation_Reuse_Forum@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/installation_reuse_forum