[CPEO-IRF] Maryland's BRAC "gold rush"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

BRAC 'gold rush' sets in
Seminars and Web sites focus on how to cash in on military base growth

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun  (MD)
November 12, 2007

Real estate agents offering to help defense workers find homes. Law 
firms peddling their expertise in negotiating military contracts. 
Management and sales consultants tendering advice on how to sell to the 
government or contractors.

The huge nationwide military base shuffle has spawned a cottage industry 
of businesses and entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on the influx of up to 
60,000 jobs and 28,000 households to Maryland. If the almost weekly 
conferences, seminars and workshops aren't enough, there are newsletters 
and Web sites offering the lowdown on how Maryland will be affected by 
the Pentagon's Base Closure and Realignment Commission's 2005 decision 
to shift thousands of mostly civilian, high-tech defense workers to 
military installations here.

The swarm of businesses around BRAC is hardly surprising. Between 
construction contracts, defense spending and a general increase in 
commerce from the growing population, the base buildup is expected to 
pump billions of dollars into the economy.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/brac/bal-te.md.cottage12nov12,0,1261534.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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