[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Fort Chaffee/Chaffee Crossing (AR) enters new phase

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

FCRA Chief: Chaffee Crossing in a different phase of development

by Ryan Saylor

Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
June 19, 2014

ArcBest's announcement of a new corporate headquarters at Chaffee  
Crossing [2], bringing with it nearly 1,000 jobs to Fort Smith, is  
just the latest big news to come out of what was once an aging U.S.  
Army Base.

Since the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority was formed in 1997 to  
redevelop 7,000 acres of land returned to local governments by the  
military, the area has transformed from thousands of acres of empty  
fields, forests and unoccupied buildings into an economic bright spot  
in an otherwise rocky local economy.

Following the ArcBest announcement, FCRA Executive Director Ivy Owen  
said the authority was down to about 3,000 acres left for  
development, "just less than half."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/33551#.U6NzVEDqmM0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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