[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Brunswick/Topsham [ME] base redeveloper lauds successes"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brunswick/Topsham base redeveloper lauds successes


By Alex Lear 
The Forecaster (ME)
October 29, 2019

BRUNSWICK — The former Brunswick Naval Air Station had about 5,000 jobs when active, between civilian employees and military personnel, with an annual payroll of about $140 million. Its closure in 2011 left the area to grapple with a potentially severe economic downturn.

The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority now boasts 2,000 jobs, with payroll of about $120 million.

“We’ve certainly outpaced our projection,” MRRA Executive Director Steve Levesque said Oct. 28, during the authority’s annual dinner. “We thought we’d be less than 1,000 by this time, using traditional absorption rates. … I think we’re only a couple years away from eclipsing the $140 million.”

That achievement is a benchmark for whether the redevelopment effort has been a success, he said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/10/29/brunswick-topsham-base-redeveloper-lauds-successes/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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