[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, GLOBAL: "Kaiserslautern [Germany] wants former US Army base redeveloped, but contamination concerns persist"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kaiserslautern wants former US Army base redeveloped, but contamination concerns persist

By ALEXANDER RIEDEL  
STARS AND STRIPES 
April 28, 2023

The U.S. Army’s former Quartermaster Kaserne is back on track for redevelopment after decades of delays, but plans to transform it into a commercial district could still be derailed by “forever chemicals” found deep in the soil.

The Kaiserslautern City Council unanimously approved the next phase of a development plan, as part of a bid to revitalize the town’s economy.

The city is the anchor of a larger district with about 250,000 people, including tens of thousands of U.S. service members and their families.

The 22-acre post was built in 1939 by the German Reichswehr as a food supply depot and later requisitioned by the U.S. military in 1951. Army logisticians used the area for storage, metalworking, a paint shop, and as the central dry-cleaning facility, which was destroyed during a fire in the 1980s.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-04-28/quartermaster-kaserne-kaiserslautern-development-9948971.html

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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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