[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION: Hangar One siding removal at Moffett Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hangar One's walls set to come down starting next week

By Diana Samuels
Palo Alto Daily News/San Jose Mercury News (CA)
April 14, 2011


Hangar One is about to shed its skin.

A contractor is set to start tearing the walls off the landmark  
Moffett Field structure next week, though it is not known on which  
day, Navy Base Closure Manager John Hill said Tuesday.

Hill said the Navy's contractor, United Kingdom-based AMEC, will  
begin by removing panels on the southern side of the hangar and work  
northward. Work is expected to be finished at the end of this year or  
early next year.

Workers have spent the past several months dismantling the interior  
of the hangar, and removal of the walls will culminate a years-long  
fight by preservationists to save the structure.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_17841313?nclick_check=1


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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