[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Bowdoin College at Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Naval Air Station runways close tonight

BY TOPH TUCKER
BOWDOIN ORIENT (ME)
January 29, 2010

The latest milestone in the meticulously planned closure of the 
Brunswick Naval Air Station (NASB) will come tonight, at 10 p.m., when 
its two massive 8,000-foot runways close.

The base - the last active-duty Department of Defense airfield in the 
northeast - was a casualty of the 2005 Defense Base Closure and 
Realignment Commission Report (BRAC). It will close entirely in May 2011.

...

With approval from the U.S. Department of Education, Bowdoin is set to 
receive 175 developable acres on the west side of the base as a public 
benefit (no-cost) conveyance—an 80 percent increase over the existing 
215-acre campus.

However, the College will not know exactly what land it is getting until 
the Navy issues its environmental impact statement, now slated to be 
released this summer. Until then, Bowdoin is in a "holding pattern," 
said Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration & Treasurer 
Katy Longley.


...

For the entire article, see
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-01-29&section=1&id=3

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