[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Hensley Field/Former Dallas Naval Air Station (YX)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clean Up the Toxic Chemicals, and Hensley Field Is a Huge Opportunity for Dallas
The city hopes to transform the former Naval Air Station into a major mixed-use development.

BY ALEX MACON 
D Magazine (TX)
JUNE 23, 2021 

Hensley Field, 738 acres of city-owned land on the far western edge of southern Dallas, has existed for years in a state of limbo. It is many things at once.

You can see it as a storage facility, where Dallas has temporarily stashed everything from Confederate statues to pets. Look at the site and you can’t miss the view of Mountain Creek Lake—this is waterfront property in North Texas, a developer’s dream. Yet vestigial signs of its history as a Naval Air Station remain in evidence, and some see Hensley Field as a toxic waste dump. It’s true that years as a military site left contaminants behind in the soil of Hensley Field, and the Navy has been slow to finish the cleanup it promised when it sold the land to the city.

Dallas officials look at Hensley Field, and they see a blank slatebigger than downtown.

“This site represents a huge opportunity for creating what would really amount to a small town, where you can create a new job center, new mixed-income housing opportunities that are accessible to jobs,” says Peer Chacko, the city’s director of planning and urban design. “It’s very central to the region, so it has a lot of potential to become an economic engine for southern Dallas. I don’t think its potential can be overstated. For southern Dallas, which has been under-invested in for decades, this represents a huge opportunity if the city plays its cards right.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2021/06/clean-up-the-toxic-chemicals-and-hensley-field-is-a-huge-opportunity-for-dallas/

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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