[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Hurricane Sandy prompts state agency to accelerate sale of historic Fort Monmouth [NJ] homes"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hurricane Sandy prompts state agency to accelerate sale of historic  
Fort Monmouth homes


By Rob Spahr
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
December 13, 2012

EATONTOWN - Citing an "acute need for housing" created by Hurricane  
Sandy, the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority, or FMERA,  
approved a resolution Wednesday night to make a permanent housing  
site on the former military base available for purchase.

The Oceanport site features 120 housing units that are a mixture of  
single-family and multi-family homes, and are located in an area of  
the Fort’s Historic District. In 2009, the U.S. Army agreed to  
nominate this district for listing on the New Jersey and National  
Registers of Historic Places.

The housing consists of the former non-commissioned officer  
residences on Gosselin Avenue and the officer family housing units on  
Russel, Carty and Allen Avenues, the latter of which range from 3,000  
to more than 6,000 square feet.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2012/12/ 
hurricane_sandy_prompts_state_agency_to_accelerate_sale_of_historic_fort 
_monmouth_homes.html

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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>
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