[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Myrtle Beach base redevelopment a star of first six closed air fields"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Myrtle Beach base redevelopment a star of first six closed air fields

By Steve Jones
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
April 2, 2013

MYRTLE BEACH - Just outside of Beeville, Texas, are the runways and  
buildings of the former Chase Field Naval Air Station.

Once a facility that supported the Naval air station in Corpus  
Christi, an hour southeast, the runways and buildings have been quiet  
since Sikorsky moved its helicopter refurbishment operation out of  
two of the former air field's hangars last year.

The experience of Chase is at one end of the spectrum for the first  
six U.S. air bases to be closed in the Base Realignment and Closure  
process. At the other end is the ongoing growth at the former Pease  
Air Force Base near Portsmouth, N.H., the first to close, and the  
continued development of Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, the sixth.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/04/02/3414804/myrtle-beach-base- 
redevelopment.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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