[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Naval Air Development Center, Warminster (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A Look Behind the Scenes of the Naval Air Development Center's Closure

The redevelopment of the NADC was long and drawn out, but the gain of  
park ground and commercial investment was worth the effort.
By James Boyle
Warminster Patch (PA)
April 11, 2011

If there's one thing that Robert Cormack regrets while overseeing the  
closing process of the Naval Air Development Center (NADC) in  
Warminster during the 1990s, it's that he didn't bring a video camera  
along with him while giving tours of the cavernous office buildings  
for prospective buyers.

"Before we started each tour," Cormack said, seated in his office at  
the Bucks County Economic Development Corporation in Doylestown, "I  
would ask if they wanted the half hour, two and-a-half hour or five  
hour version. It was a million and-a-half square feet. There was just  
hallway after hallway."

With the current activities surrounding the closure procedures for  
the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Horsham, it may be useful  
to look back at the challenges presented by the closing of the NADC.


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For the entire article, see
http://warminster.patch.com/articles/a-look-behind-the-scenes-of-the- 
naval-air-development-centers-closure

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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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