[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Changing Ft. Monmouth's (NJ) reuse plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Changing the Fort's reuse plan: piece by piece rather than a do-over


by Larry Higgs
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
November 18, 2013

Fort Monmouth is made up of 1,126 acres of real estate on two tracts,  
the Charles Wood area in Tinton Falls and Eatontown and the Main Post  
in Oceanport and Eatontown. There are more than 350 building on the  
fort property. About 5,000 jobs were lost when the Army closed the  
post after 94 years in September 2011. Fort Monmouth was recommended  
for closure in the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round. A 2012  
government report found that it cost $1.9 billion to close the post  
and move its research and engineering mission to Aberdeen, Md.

OCEANPORT - Changes to Fort Monmouth’s redevelopment plan will likely  
be made building by building, and parcel by parcel of land, rather by  
a wholesale rewriting of the original proposal, officials said.

Officials from Cushman & Wakefeld and the Fort Monmouth Economic  
Revitalization Authority said the redoing the plan would be a long  
process and require approval from officials in the towns where the  
fort is based - Eatontown, Oceanport and Tinton Falls - as well as  
the state and the Army. Instead, the precedent has been made to  
change parts of the plan, when the fort gets a proposal from a  
developer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/article/20131118/NJNEWS/311180017/Changing-Fort-s- 
reuse-plan-piece-by-piece-rather-than-do-over

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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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