[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former South Weymouth Naval Air Station (MA) development debate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tri-Town asks Navy to reject SouthField changes


By Christian Schiavone
Quincy Patriot Ledger (MA)
June 18. 2014

WEYMOUTH – The quasi-governmental agency overseeing redevelopment at  
the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station is asking the Navy to  
oppose sweeping changes proposed for the stalled project by its  
master developer.


The developer, Starwood Land Ventures, says the request is a “last  
ditch” effort by South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp. to gum up the  
process as the company is negotiating a deal with Weymouth’s mayor to  
get behind legislation that would rewrite the future of the project,  
called SouthField.

And the Navy isn’t saying much of anything.

Tri-Town CEO Kevin Donovan on Monday sent a letter to Navy officials  
in Washington, D.C., saying Starwood’s plan threatens to upend  
existing agreements between the Navy and Tri-Town, which would see  
its authority slashed under Starwood’s proposal.


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For the entire article, see
http://abington.wickedlocal.com/article/20140618/NEWS/140616338

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