[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Cottage Grove (OR) Armory

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oregon Army National Guard shuts Cottage Grove armory

by Julie Sullivan
The Oregonian
February 9, 2009

COTTAGE GROVE -- This is a can-do place.

New hospital? Can do. New high school? Can do. New armory?

...

War is not only pulling the Oregon Army National Guard away, it's also 
helping build bigger and more expensive military centers.

Last Friday, the Guard closed the landmark Cottage Grove Armory it has 
occupied since 1931. After speeches and sheet cake on the peeling steps, 
troops headed to their new $38 million headquarters in Springfield, a 
building dedicated to the global war on terrorism.

...

The state will assess the property and offer it first to state agencies 
and then for general sale. The townspeople, who built a new hospital 
after the old one left, and a new high school, would like to see a 
community center in the building. The roof is only 10 years old. The 
leaks, not so bad. And think of the history.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/oregon_army_national_guard_shu.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
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