[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, PRESERVATION: "Once crumbling and threatened with demolition, Mount Umunhum [CA] radar tower has $2 million restoration"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bay Area landmark gets major upgrade — and a sleek new look
Once crumbling and threatened with demolition, Mount Umunhum radar tower has $2 million restoration

By PAUL ROGERS
Bay Area News Group
March 13, 2022 

In one of the Bay Area’s more unusual makeovers, a $2 million renovation project at the Mount Umunhum radar tower, an 85-foot-tall landmark in the hills south of San Jose, is complete.

The five-story mountaintop building – visible from across the South Bay for its distinctive cube shape on the ridgeline – was once the centerpiece of Almaden Air Force Station, a military base that scanned the skies for Russian bombers from 1958 until it closed in 1980.

A popular destination with hikers now, the structure sits in the middle of the 19,300-acre Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve.

Its owner, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, a government agency based in Los Altos, planned to demolish the radar tower a decade ago as part of opening the summit of the once off-limits peak to the public.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/13/bay-area-landmark-gets-major-upgrade-and-a-sleek-new-look

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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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