[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Norton Air Force Base (CA) after 20 years

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Norton Air Force base marks 20 years since closure

By Ryan Hagen
San Bernardino Sun (CA)
March 22, 2014

Three main legs supported the San Bernardino economy in the decades leading up to March 31, 1994, when the last and the biggest - Norton Air Force Base - was kicked out from under it and staggered the city for years.

First went Fontana’s Kaiser Steel in 1984, then the repair functions at the Santa Fe Depot, then - capping a decade of decline - the Air Force base that had supported 12,600 jobs the year before its final closure was announced, said Inland Empire economist John Husing.

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Of those three, Norton cost the city the most jobs and looms largest in locals’ memories. The U.S. Air Force's socioeconomic impact analysis after the base was slated for closure in 1988 reported that in 1987 its direct and secondary employment was 12,600, slipping to 10,400 in 1990. The projection for 1994 was that 70 employees would remain.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sbsun.com/business/20140322/norton-air-force-base-marks-20-years-since-closure

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
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