[CPEO-IRF] "Ghost Town" period - Brunswick, ME

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

'Ghost town' fears haunt BNAS reuse panel

Seth Koenig
Brunswick Times-Record (ME)
November 28, 2007

BRUNSWICK - Some of Gov. John Baldacci's base reuse advisers are 
concerned that area residents and business owners are still 
underestimating the coming impact of Brunswick Naval Air Station's closure.

There is at least one year between the 2010 departure of the last P-3 
Orion squadron and when the 3,200-acre property is turned over to 
civilian developers in 2011, a period during which the significant 
market made up of sailors and their families will be gone and no 
economic development can occur on the base to replace it.

That stretch of time has been called the "ghost town" period by members 
of the Governor's Advisory Council, a group that assembled Tuesday 
afternoon at the Ad-vanced Technology Center in Brunswick for its 
regular meeting.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/370926171FE360BF052573A10056ED43?Opendocument

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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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