[CPEO-MEF] BUFFER ZONES: "State deal aids Ellsworth [AFB, SD], spawns factory, displaces tenants"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State deal aids Ellsworth, spawns factory, displaces tenants

by Seth Tupper 
Rapid City Journal (SD)
February 5, 2018

State government plans to give a $3.2 million building to a Black Hills businessman for conversion to a novel kind of manufacturing plant, in exchange for his agreement to demolish 125 mobile homes he owns near the Ellsworth Air Force Base runway.

The plant will produce steel-constructed “volumetric modular” units, such as individual hotel rooms, that will be shipped to building sites and stacked together to make completed structures. The plant is projected to employ 100 or more people at starting wages of $14 per hour, plus benefits.

Proponents of the multifaceted deal say it will help protect Ellsworth Air Force Base from closure while growing the local economy. But the deal will also displace the residents of the mobile homes.

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For the entire article, see
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/state-deal-aids-ellsworth-spawns-factory-displaces-tenants/article_1becabd3-c4f1-575b-8c3b-8cfcc831df23.html

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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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