[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Nevada Guard Armory demolition

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Armory demolition moves forward using federal money


By Geoff Dornan
Nevada Appeal
September 14, 2008

Passersby watched this week as three buildings on the site of the old 
Nevada National Guard Armory on south Carson Street were turned into rubble.

Project Coordinator Ken Scarbrough of the Public Works Board said that 
and two other demolition projects were put on hold when funding to do 
the work was reverted as part of the state's budget cuts. But while the 
other two are state projects, the armory is half federal and half state. 
He said the federal match money for the armory project was still 
available so they started by taking down 15 smaller buildings and sheds 
in the back of the property in June.

But with tough economic times, bids came in as much as 40 percent of 
what they would have two years ago, so there was money left over. 
Scarbrough said it was money that would revert to the federal government 
if the state didn't use it by Sept. 30, the end of the federal fiscal year.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080914/NEWS/109149992/1058&ParentProfile=
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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
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