2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:56:52 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: Re: [CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION, REUSE: Google executives propose to restore Moffett Field's (CA) Hangar One
 
Google founders offer '100 percent' funding to save Hangar One, but no word back from NASA

By Kristen Marschall
Palo Alto Daily News (CA)
December 9, 2011


As Hangar One continues to be stripped of its PCB-laden paneling, a company controlled by Google's founders has stepped forward to announce it will fund 100 percent of the work to preserve the historic structure.

Frustrated by NASA's "radio silence" response to its offer, the Hangar One Subcommittee of the Moffett Field Restoration Advisory Board made the proposal public at its meeting Thursday night.

"We don't want to spend the next six months working hard to come up with a definitive plan if in fact that dog won't hunt," said Ken Ambrose, a vice president for H211 LLC. "Months have gone by and I feel a real sense of urgency with the (hangar's) bones being exposed."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_19503345

On Dec 8, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Lenny Siegel wrote:

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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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=5047

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