[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME) housing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Housing deal in works
Brunswick council to review proposal for former military homes

By Darren Fishell
Brunswick Times Record
November 4, 2011

BRUNSWICK - The Brunswick Town Council will take a first look Monday  
at a proposed land deal between the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment  
Authority (MRRA) and a company owned by developer George Schott, who  
purchased former military housing units affiliated with Brunswick  
Naval Air Station.

Schott's Affordable Mid-Coast Housing (AMH) owns 702 housing units -  
on six tracts in Brunswick and one tract in Topsham. However, AMH  
does not own the land beneath those residential units, because the  
Navy retained the land while leasing the buildings to a private  
contractor prior to the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure  
commission's vote to close BNAS.

As part of the base closure process, MRRA acquired the land via a  
conveyance from the Navy. Since the land transfer became official,  
Schott and redevelopment officials have negotiated terms of an  
agreement that would link ownership of the land and the homes, which  
would allow for the eventual sale of those homes.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2011/11/04/news/ 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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