[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former Ft. Monmouth "base quarters are now single family homes going for $750K"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ex-army base quarters are now single family homes going for $750K

By Steve Strunskysstrunsky
NJ Advance Media
June 18, 2018


In 1972, when Dan Dean was 17 and his father was the new commandant of the Army Signal Center School at Fort Monmouth, he claimed the attic of the two-family house where his family would be living on the base. 

"I painted the pipes and the trim all red, white and blue," said Dean, 63, a retired federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission official now living in Maryland.

Last December, after Dean heard that the officers' quarters on the decommissioned base were being redeveloped for sale as private homes, he took a nostalgia tour with an eye toward investing in a unit with his two sisters, who had also lived on the base. He was already transfixed by the visit to his old house 45 years later, when he climbed the attic stairs to have a look.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2018/06/fort_monmouth_houses_for_sale.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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