[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Long Beach, CA property transfer commemorated

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Long Beach Port Acquires 125 Acres for Cargo Ops

By Joseph R. Fonseca
Marine Link
August 31, 2016


U.S. Navy, Maritime Administration and California Environmental Protection Agency representatives joined City and Port officials today to commemorate the approval to transfer ownership of 125 acres of the former Naval Complex to the City of Long Beach.

The property transfer commemoration highlighted the economic success of a thriving shipping terminal and other operations at the former Navy facility. Today, the Pier T container terminal is one of the Port of Long Beach’s busiest — able to accommodate megaships and handling billions of dollars’ worth of trade.

The acreage was part of the former Long Beach Naval Station and Naval Shipyard on Terminal Island that the Navy agreed to transfer to the Harbor Department as part of the ongoing defense base closures that started with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.marinelink.com/news/acquires-beach-acres414710.aspx

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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