[CPEO-IRF] Redstone (AL) spin-offs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

BRAC spin-off business could benefit community

By Karen Middleton
Athens News Courier (AL)
December 17, 2007

Public Works Director James Rich told the Athens City Council Monday 
that the community should organize to snare a portion of the estimated 
5,000 spin-off jobs resulting from Base Realignment and Closure.

BRAC is expected to bring 4,000 jobs to Redstone Arsenal over the next 
five years, but officials estimate related contractors would require 
another 5,000 employees.

Rich attended a Regional Growth workshop presented by the Office of 
Economic Adjustment, a Department of Defense agency. He said 
representatives of several communities from Maryland, to Colorado to 
Texas discussed how they were changed by previous BRAC moves.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.enewscourier.com/local/local_story_351222656.html

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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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