[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Stratford Army Engine Plant (CT)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The U.S. Army Struggles to Unload a Tainted Asset

Column by Gregory B. Hladky
Hartford Advocate (CT)
July 12, 2011


The WWII hotshots who flew into battle in gull-winged Corsairs built  
along the bank of Stratford's Housatonic River had a word for it. So  
did the tank jockeys who fired up engines made in the same sprawling  
complex decades later.

...

The federal government is once again trying to find someone — anyone  
— willing to buy the 126-acre, 1.75 million-square-foot industrial  
dinosaur that sits between Sikorsky Memorial Airport and the river.  
The U.S. Army, owner of this monster monument to aviation and  
military history, has been hoping to unload it ever since the plant  
was shut down in 1998. (By some estimates, it's costing taxpayers $2  
million a year just to maintain the place and keep trespassers out.)

They tried to give it to the town of Stratford, but that idea crashed  
and burned. They tried an online auction, and got a $9.6 million bid  
from some guys who wanted to turn the place into a "Hollywood East"  
studio. The deal imploded, and one of those would-be movie moguls was  
later indicted in a massive real estate scam.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/news/nm- 
ht29ncstratford-20110712-13,0,2798362.story

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/news/nm- 
ht29ncstratford-20110712-13,0,2798362.story

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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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