[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Surprising Ways Former Bay Area [CA] Military Bases Are Transforming (and Why It Takes So Long)"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Surprising Ways Former Bay Area Military Bases Are Transforming (and Why It Takes So Long)

by Pauline Bartolone
KQED Public Media (San Francisco, CA))
January 23, 2025

If you live in the Bay Area — or even just visited — chances are you’ve set foot on a former military base.

Most people know the Presidio, which dates back to the Spanish, and Fort Mason, which launched over a million troops into the Pacific during World War II. The sites are now a mix of commerce, open space, and homes.

Then there are other popular places — that you may not have known used to be old military stomping grounds — like the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito.

Other military sites have been collecting dust for decades, like Point Molate in Richmond, which is vacant and closed off to the public.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kqed.org/news/12023708/surprising-ways-former-bay-area-military-bases-are-transforming-and-why-it-takes-so-long

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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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