[CPEO-MEF] REUSE - Pease Air Force Base (NH)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Pease held up as example for BNAS

Seth Koenig
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
March 19, 2008

BRUNSWICK - Nearly 20 years after the closure of Pease Air Force Base 
near Portsmouth, N.H., development at the former military property now 
provides "five times the economic impact" as the $350 million the base 
used to annually sink into the community.

The former chairman and vice chairman of the panel that created the 
master reuse plan for the Pease property visited the Midcoast Regional 
Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday, offering words of advice for the 
group charged with leading the reuse of Brunswick Naval Air Station.

The Navy is scheduled to vacate the Brunswick base in 2011, and civilian 
planners would love to devise a way to generate five times the base's 
current economic impact — an impact that's felt through the spendings of 
military personnel and families, as well as on-base employment for 
civilians.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/FAFAE3691229C862052574110052742E?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>
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