[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Naval Support Activity [LA] redevelopment moves slowly

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Two years after Naval Support Activity closed, base redevelopment  
plans moving slowly


By Paul Purpura
New Orleands Times-Picayune (LA)
September 24, 2013

Retired Marine Corps Col. Bill Davis raves over the speed at which  
the state charter high school he oversees is shaping up at the  
Federal City campus in Algiers. Just nine months ago, construction  
crews poured the slab for a new building at the New Orleans Military  
and Maritime Academy, which combines renovated century-old Navy  
buildings and new construction.

If the New Orleans region makes it through hurricane season without a  
debilitating storm, and Entergy finishes rebuilding the Federal City  
power grid in time, the academy's cadets will be sitting in new  
classrooms when they return from Christmas break, Davis said.

"We're ahead of schedule and under budget," said Davis, the academy's  
commandant. "We poured that concrete in April, and we're moving in by  
December. It's going good. We've been blessed."

Yet things aren't moving as quickly for the rest of Federal City, the  
mixed-use development that founders envisioned bringing 15,000 jobs  
to Algiers over 10 years. Two years after the Navy closed the Naval  
Support Activity in Algiers and Bywater, the Marine Corps  
installation and its quality-of-life amenities are bustling. But the  
redevelopment of the rest of the shuttered Navy base has moved much  
more slowly.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/09/ 
two_years_after_navy_closes_ne.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
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