[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION, REUSE: Google executives propose to restore Moffett Field's (CA) Hangar One

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Google execs offer to save Hangar One

by Daniel DeBolt

Mountain View Voice
December 8, 2011

'Why doesn't Google pay for it?' has been the sort of comment often  
made by those frustrated by the years-long struggle to save landmark  
Hangar One at Moffett Field. But on Thursday it was announced that  
the principals of Google are willing to do just that.



As its toxic siding is stripped off in a Navy-led environmental  
cleanup, a proposal to restore and lease the 200-foot-tall 1933 icon  
was publicly announced Thursday night by Ken Ambrose, director of  
H211 LLC, which runs a fleet of private jets out of Moffett Field for  
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, and chairman Eric  
Schmidt.

Ambrose told a subcommittee of the Moffett Field Restoration Advisory  
Board that Google's leaders would pay 100 percent of the cost to  
restore the hangar and the shell in return for a long term lease of  
the hangar for storing the Google leaders' eight planes, including  
two jumbo jets and several Gulfstream jets.


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http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=5047

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