[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ingleside Naval Station (TX) - two Local Reuse Authorities

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Two LRAs for one Navy base

By Fanny S. Chirinos
Corpus Christi Caller-Times  (TX)
July 12, 2009


CORPUS CHRISTI - When Naval Station Ingleside's eventual closure became 
official in December 2005, the community began talking about how best to 
recover from the more than 4,000 civilian jobs that would be lost.

The Navy will return 912 acres to the Port of Corpus Christi. That 
property reverts to the port because it deeded the land to the Navy in 
the 1980s.

That leaves 155 acres, mostly underwater, that the Navy bought. That 
land might be sold to the highest bidder or given to a redevelopment 
group to use for economic development.

The city of Ingleside in 2007 established the Ingleside Local 
Redevelopment Authority to plan the redevelopment of the 155 acres. The 
federal government approved the group in September of that year.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/jul/11/two-lras-for-one-navy-base/

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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