[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Gillem (GA) master developer

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cousins will spearhead reinvention of Fort Gillem

By KEVIN DUFFY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA)
December 17, 2007

One of metro Atlanta's leading development companies, Cousins 
Properties, has been selected master developer for the Fort Gillem 
redevelopment in Forest Park.

 From this point forward, Cousins and its partners — LNR Property of 
Miami and Newport Beach, Calif., and the Benham Cos. of Oklahoma City — 
will spearhead the reinvention of the Army post.

The Army is giving up all but 15 percent of the 1,426-acre facility as 
part of the Defense Department's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC).

Fort McPherson, another Army installation on the southside, also will 
close, but its redevelopment won't be led by a master developer. The 
local redevelopment authority wants less than half the site for an 
education center and greenspace, and the Army will simply sell what's left.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/business/stories/2007/12/17/gillem_1218.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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