[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Riverbank Ammunition Plant (CAA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Future of Riverbank ammunition plant still up in the air

By EVE HIGHTOWER
Modesto Bee (CA)
August 3, 2008

RIVERBANK -- Three years ago, the Army announced it would be shedding 
the 173-acre site at Claus and Claribel roads where it has made 
ammunition casings for 56 years.

The Army hopes to ship out by 2011, leaving the 10 businesses that lease 
land there wondering what will become of the site. Most local officials 
would like to see it transformed into a large business park, bringing 
more companies and jobs to the area.

But relinquishing control of the complex has been arduous and 
contentious for the Army; city; site management company, NI Industries 
Inc.; and the center's tenants. While some progress has been made, 
there's concern the process is moving too slowly and undermining 
development of the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.modbee.com/business/story/379880.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>
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