2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:25:04 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ingleside Naval Station (TX) redevelopment authorities
 
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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