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09-17-2007, 02:53 AM
This post is dedicated to the 7th Infantry Division (Light) Vets.
Here's an update on Ft.Ord today.
Enjoy...
THE CONVERSION OF FORT ORD
A distant dream turns into reality
By LARRY PARSONS
Herald Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 09/16/2007 01:31:02 AM PDT
The red-and-white Target logo glows from the building beside Imjin Parkway. The sand dunes across Highway 1 from the new store and soon-to-open shopping center are almost black as daylight fades.
The bull's-eye logo of the big-box chain, preparing for an October opening of its new Marina store, is a fitting symbol of the big changes taking place on sweeping chunks of the former Army base, after a decade of planning, politicking and legal wrangling.
Other targets were here, years ago. They stood against the dunes between the highway and beach, on rifle ranges where thousands of soldiers who trained at Fort Ord until the early 1990s tested their marksmanship.
Those troops are long gone. And new forces using bulldozers, cranes and ranks of construction workers are planting flags of residential and commercial development at Fort Ord. Their overarching target — economic redevelopment of the sprawling military base.
"There is absolutely more going on than a lot of folks are aware of, based on where we were two years ago," said Michael Houlemard, executive director of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, the agency shepherding the transformation of the former Army base. Hundreds of old Army buildings have been demolished. Miles of utility lines have been laid underground. Tree-lined streets that will be the arteries of new subdivisions cut ink-black lines across south Marina's sandy soil. Farther east, in the rolling hills of the East Garrison area, acres of the red ground have been shaped by bulldozers, graders and ditch diggers.
Private development|
The most visible evidence of the explosion of private development at Fort Ord stands at Highway 1 and Imjin Parkway, where Target, Kohl's, REI, Best Buy, Old Navy and other stores will anchor the first Fort Ord shopping center. Part of The Dunes at Monterey Bay, the center is due to open in October.
In the works on Fort Ord land, there are three major projects in Marina, another in East Garrison, two projects in Seaside and another in Del Rey Oaks. They call for thousands of homes, apartments, townhouses, stores, offices, shops, hotels, a new golf course and other commercial outlets. While this activity represents the biggest wave of redevelopment at Fort Ord, it's hardly the first big undertaking to put the former Army base to new and retooled uses. There's CSU-Monterey Bay and the University of California's science and technology center, both well-established educational centers.
More :http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_6909811?nclick_check=1
Here's an update on Ft.Ord today.
Enjoy...
THE CONVERSION OF FORT ORD
A distant dream turns into reality
By LARRY PARSONS
Herald Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 09/16/2007 01:31:02 AM PDT
The red-and-white Target logo glows from the building beside Imjin Parkway. The sand dunes across Highway 1 from the new store and soon-to-open shopping center are almost black as daylight fades.
The bull's-eye logo of the big-box chain, preparing for an October opening of its new Marina store, is a fitting symbol of the big changes taking place on sweeping chunks of the former Army base, after a decade of planning, politicking and legal wrangling.
Other targets were here, years ago. They stood against the dunes between the highway and beach, on rifle ranges where thousands of soldiers who trained at Fort Ord until the early 1990s tested their marksmanship.
Those troops are long gone. And new forces using bulldozers, cranes and ranks of construction workers are planting flags of residential and commercial development at Fort Ord. Their overarching target — economic redevelopment of the sprawling military base.
"There is absolutely more going on than a lot of folks are aware of, based on where we were two years ago," said Michael Houlemard, executive director of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, the agency shepherding the transformation of the former Army base. Hundreds of old Army buildings have been demolished. Miles of utility lines have been laid underground. Tree-lined streets that will be the arteries of new subdivisions cut ink-black lines across south Marina's sandy soil. Farther east, in the rolling hills of the East Garrison area, acres of the red ground have been shaped by bulldozers, graders and ditch diggers.
Private development|
The most visible evidence of the explosion of private development at Fort Ord stands at Highway 1 and Imjin Parkway, where Target, Kohl's, REI, Best Buy, Old Navy and other stores will anchor the first Fort Ord shopping center. Part of The Dunes at Monterey Bay, the center is due to open in October.
In the works on Fort Ord land, there are three major projects in Marina, another in East Garrison, two projects in Seaside and another in Del Rey Oaks. They call for thousands of homes, apartments, townhouses, stores, offices, shops, hotels, a new golf course and other commercial outlets. While this activity represents the biggest wave of redevelopment at Fort Ord, it's hardly the first big undertaking to put the former Army base to new and retooled uses. There's CSU-Monterey Bay and the University of California's science and technology center, both well-established educational centers.
More :http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_6909811?nclick_check=1