[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Fort Baker, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fort Baker rejoins life as a public showplace

Carl Nolte
San Francisco Chronicle
June 13, 2008


The National Park Service and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will raise the 
flag Saturday on the parade ground of Fort Baker, an old U.S. Army post 
in Marin County that has been transformed into a public showplace.

The fort, which looks like something out of a postcard - white buildings 
arranged in the shape of a horseshoe around a grass parade ground - has 
been almost invisible to Bay Area residents. Visiting was not encouraged 
in its Army days, and there was not much to see until recently.

Now it includes a 142-room lodge, a restaurant, a bar and carefully 
restored turn-of-the-century buildings.

"An elegant place in a park setting," Brian O'Neill calls it. He is the 
general superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and 
sort of the godfather of the whole project.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/13/MN0P118CDV.DTL

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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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