[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, VOCs: "Former Army housing site eyed for North Bayshore school, " Moffett Field, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Army housing site eyed for North Bayshore school
Orion Park is perfect size for new campus, but at what cost?

by Mark Noack
Mountain View Voice (CA)
June 22, 2017

Like manna from heaven, a school campus-sized site may have opened up in North Bayshore to serve the thousands of new households being planned for the area. But it will be no easy task for local officials to secure 30 acres of lucrative land located just a stone's throw from Silicon Valley's richest companies. And the land itself has one key drawback: contamination from TCE, a dangerous chemical.

The site is Orion Park, a U.S. Army-owned property bordering Moffett Field that previously held 450 military homes. After a lease deal with a private housing developer fell through in 2005, the Army closed and demolished the housing in 2009, and left the site as an eerie pocket of vacant land amid a frenzied real-estate market. 

Army officials recently published a request for proposals, offering to lease the site for the next 75 years. According to the provided materials, Orion Park could be leased for commercial uses, tech offices or even a school campus.

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For the entire article, see
https://mv-voice.com/news/2017/06/22/former-army-housing-eyed-for-north-bayshore-school

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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