[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION: Hangar One's windows, Moffett Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wealthy donor urgently needed to save Hangar One's windows

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
February 8, 2011

The community has little more than a week to raise between $575,000 and 
$1.2 million to save 4,638 unique corrugated windows on Moffett's 
Historic Hangar One, according to an e-mail from the U.S. Navy this week.

Under a contract the Navy has awarded to demolish the Hangar's toxic 
siding and interior structures, owner NASA Ames Research Center has 
until mid-February to exercise an option to save the windows, according 
an e-mail by Scott Anderson, the Navy's Base Re-alignment and Closure 
manager for Moffett Field, responding to questions from preservationists.

The 200-foot tall icon was supposed to be restored with federal funding 
that was lost in December's political storm in Washington, D.C. Now 
preservationists say they don't have the resources to process small 
donations from the community, and is instead asking several wealthy 
individuals who may be inclined to donate the $1.2 million.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=3913

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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