[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ingleside Naval Station (TX) redevelopment authorities

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Group now cooperating on Navy base plans

By Mary Ann Cavazos, Fanny S. Chirinos
Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX)
August 6, 2008

Groups that have disagreed on how to prepare for the closure of Naval 
Station Ingleside are cooperating now, said a consultant for one of 
those groups, the Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority.

Officials from New Hampshire-based RKG Associates Inc., consultants for 
the redevelopment group, have found a spirit of cooperation as they 
conducted studies and compiled data such as local labor and market 
trends from community leaders, real estate brokers and work force 
development agencies, the consultant said. The authority, charged with 
developing a reuse plan for 155 surplus acres of the base known as the 
Electromagnetic Roll Facility, hired the consultants in June.

The base is scheduled to close on Sept. 30, 2010, as a result of the 
2005 Base Realignment and Closure round. The Navy's departure means a 
loss of 7,015 direct and indirect jobs to the region, according to the 
Defense Department.

The other 912 acres that make up the base will revert to the Port of 
Corpus Christi when the Navy leaves. Port officials have hired Federal 
Ingleside, a subsidiary of Federal Development, as master developer of 
that land and of 433 acres adjacent to it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2008/aug/06/group-now-cooperating-on-navy-base-plans/

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Lenny Siegel
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