[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Brunswich Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel]

Life after BNAS is discussed

Kennebec Journal (ME)
January 23, 2009


BRUNSWICK -- One day after Brunswick Naval Air Station closes -- 
targeted for March 2010 -- redevelopers hope to take over much of the 
3,200-acre base and begin making money.

It will be needed.

People in a packed auditorium were told Thursday that $115 million in 
wages will vanish when the base closure is finalized in May 2011. Even 
more unsettling will be the loss of occupied homes in Brunswick and 
surrounding towns.

Housing, lost jobs and the fate of the base were discussed at a 
first-of-its-kind meeting between the Navy and the community.

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For the entire article, see
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/5855674.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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