From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Tue, 2 Aug 2011 09:41:42 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: South Weymouth Naval Air Station (MA) transfer |
$25m deal over ex-Navy base land First family moves into SouthField By Emily Sweeney Boston Globe July 31, 2011Progress 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, seehttp://articles.boston.com/2011-07-31/news/29836115_1_tri-town- southfield-navy-plans -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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