[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former Newark Air Force Base (OH)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port Authority takes closed Air Force base from uncertainty to stability, growth

By Kent Mallett
Newark Advocate (OH)
September 30, 2021

HEATH — The announced closure of the Newark Air Force Base in 1993 sent an immediate wave of fear, despair and uncertainty through the community, especially the 1,400 employees and their families.

The base closed three years later, and some employees left to work at other Air Force bases. But many remained at the Heath campus to work for Air Force contractors at the privatized facility.

Today, 25 years after that heartbreaking closure previously considered unthinkable, much of the work remains, along with many new companies coming to the Central Ohio Aerospace and Technology Center campus where 1,650 people now work for more than 20 companies.

The Port Authority, which owns and manages COATC, is the largest self-sustaining port authority in Ohio. The campus employers have a combined payroll of $127 million, for a $77,000 annual average.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/2021/09/30/port-authority-takes-closed-air-force-base-uncertainty-growth/5828186001/

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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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