[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Frederick (MD) BRAC zone

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Military Intelligence — County, city consider BRAC zone
Originally published


By Justin Palk
Frederick News Post (MD)
May 15, 2008
	

The military's Base Realignment and Closure process will bring an 
estimated 40,000 to 60,000 new jobs to Maryland in the next few years.

Starting this fall, the state will be able to funnel extra 
infrastructure money and give priority for development programs to areas 
that will receive that growth, under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. 
Martin O'Malley.

...

Although no one has decided yet where such an area might be, the old 
Frederick Brick Works site in Frederick city is one possible candidate, 
she said.

...

BRAC will bring an estimated 200 to 300 jobs to Fort Detrick, while 
Aberdeen Proving Ground is expected to pick up the most jobs in the 
state, with roughly 8,000.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/reporters_notebooks_display.htm?StoryID=75015

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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