[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former Kansas Army Ammunition Plant ribbon-cutting

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kansas ammunition plant set for new era

By JOHN MILBURN
Associated Press
October 4, 2012

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Seven years after closing a former military  
installation, officials in southeastern Kansas are preparing to start  
a new era of regional economic development at a site where thousands  
of workers once assembled weapons of war.

Dan Goddard, executive director of the Great Plains Development  
Authority in Parsons, said Wednesday that a ribbon-cutting ceremony  
Oct. 11 at the former Kansas Army Ammunition Plant is an important  
event. But it isn't completion of the goal to put people to work.

...

Pentagon officials designated the plant for closure in 2005, as part  
of the Base Realignment and Closure process. Production was  
transferred to ammunition plants in Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma and  
Tennessee.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/L2917-BC-KS- 
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Lenny Siegel
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