[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Blue Cube (Onizuka Air Force Station, Sunnyvale, CA) vacated

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Herhold: The closing of the legendary Blue Cube

By Scott Herhold
San Jose Mercury News Columnist (CA)
July 28, 2010

Before a color guard and the wife of a hero, they said goodbye Wednesday 
to a famous artifact of space and the Cold War - Sunnyvale's "Blue 
Cube," the windowless blue box that housed secret operations for four 
decades.

Formally, it was the closure of the Onizuka Air Force Station, whose 
operations are being moved to Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern 
California.

...

The city of Sunnyvale, which will inherit the bulk of the property after 
the Air Force vacates it next year, has talked about converting the land 
into a cluster of auto dealerships, save for one building claimed by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs. If that happens, the Cube would probably 
be demolished. But the auto dealership idea seems unlikely in the 
recession. And just how a fortresslike building from the 1960s could be 
reused perplexes Sunnyvale officials.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15624641

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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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