[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: South Weymouth Naval Air Station (MA) transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$25m deal over ex-Navy base land
First family moves into SouthField

By Emily Sweeney
Boston Globe
July 31, 2011

Progress is being made - both on the street and behind the scenes -  
at SouthField, the new community being built at the former South  
Weymouth Naval Air Station.

The first residents to move into the development - Steve and Molly  
LeMott - are settling into their newly constructed single-family home  
on Thistle Lane. As they unpack, they can see bulldozers and  
construction crews working on the homes of their future neighbors,  
just a few yards away.

Meanwhile, a breakthrough in backroom negotiations has been made  
between the Navy and the South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp., the  
agency overseeing redevelopment at the old military base that  
encompasses some 1,400 acres in the towns of Abington, Rockland, and  
Weymouth. The two parties have tentatively agreed on a price for more  
than 800 of those acres: $25 million.

...

For the entire article, see
http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-31/news/29836115_1_tri-town- 
southfield-navy-plans

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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