[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former New Orleans (LA) Naval Support Activity

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

At Federal City in Algiers, Navy fence line comes down three years  
after base closed


by Paul Purpura
New Orleans Times-Picayune
September 15, 2014


Three years after the U.S. Navy closed its base in New Orleans, a  
portion of the perimeter fencing at the Algiers part of the  
installation is coming down. The shuttered Naval Support Activity,  
which for decades was fenced off from the public, is opening up,  
giving pedestrians free access to the Federal City site and motorists  
a third entry point.

The Navy closed the base Sept. 15, 2011, the result of the military's  
Base Realignment and Closure Round six years earlier. On that day,  
sailors saluted as the United States flag was lowered a last time  
before they left their posts.

The public has had access ever since. However, the perimeter chain- 
link fence, topped with barbed wire and razor wire and made of heavy- 
gauge posts reinforced with a ¾-inch steel cable designed at least  
slow cars, remained. The Algiers Development District, which now owns  
114 acres of the former Navy base for conversion into the Federal  
City, has wanted to remove the fence to give the campus a more  
inviting appearance.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/2014/09/ 
at_federal_city_in_algiers_nav.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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