[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: "The Navy's abandoned buildings at SouthField in Weymouth" (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PHOTOS: The Navy's abandoned buildings at SouthField in Weymouth

By Bradford Randall
Weymouth News (MA)
August 13. 2015 


For 55 years, Naval Air Station South Weymouth operated as a fully functioning airfield until the Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended the station shutter operations in 1995. The facility was fully closed in 1997 and, for several years afterward, was plagued by stalled efforts to redevelop the site.

Since 2011, SouthField's 834 acres has been the focus of developers and politicians alike, all seeking to make the former U.S. Naval air station a viable part of Weymouth, Abington and Rockland. Efforts to push SouthField's development forward came to fruition in 2014 when state legislators overhauled legislation governing SouthField.

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For the entire article, see
http://weymouth.wickedlocal.com/article/20150813/NEWS/150817869

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Lenny Siegel
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