[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Scranton (PA) Army Reserve site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army negotiates price for new reserve center
Site in Marvine Properties Business Property Park location sought for 
combined Scranton/W-B center.

Ralph Nardone
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (PA_
March 23, 2009

SCRANTON -- The U.S. Army is negotiating purchase of land at the Marvine 
Properties Business Property Park to build a new reserve center, 
according to the Todd Hornback of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

If all goes right, the $32 million project will consolidate the Serrenti 
Memorial U.S. Army Reserve Center in Scranton and the Army Reserve 
Center in Wilkes-Barre into a 80,000-square-foot structure by September 
2011.

The new center will replace the two that do not meet “modern operation 
and training needs” and energy efficiency, Hornback said.

Twenty-five acres of former mine area, or “brownfield,” will be used, 
Hornback said. He added that the Army is pleased to find use for the 
brownfield area, which was formerly deep- and strip-mining land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Army_negotiates_price_for_new_reserve_center_03-23-2009.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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