Navy Wants to Build 10K Homes, 2 Hotels and More on California Site
The Navy is working alongside partners throughout the San Diego region to provide the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) with safe, modern and secure facilities. (U.S. Navy/ Kara McDermott)
17 May 2021 The San Diego Union-Tribune | By Jennifer Van Grove
The Navy has determined it would like to work alongside private developers to replace its familiar-but-obsolete hangars along Interstate 5 with new facilities, thousands of homes, plenty of office space for large companies, two hotels and community shops in towers stretching as high as 350 feet with a transit center to boot.
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The Navy has determined it would like to work alongside private developers to replace its familiar-but-obsolete hangars along Interstate 5 with new facilities, thousands of homes, plenty of office space for large companies, two hotels and community shops in towers stretching as high as 350 feet with a transit center to boot.
The preliminary decision for the 70-acre site in the Midway District, commonly referred to as NAVWAR, was published Friday by the United States Department of the Navy in what’s known as a draft environmental impact statement.
The 730-page document, now available to the public for a 60-day comment period, considers the impacts of five scenarios of varying intensity on things such as traffic, views and air quality. The report, required by the National Environmental Policy Act, identifies the highest-density plan, which would introduce 10,000 homes and 70,000 more car trips per day to the area at buildout, as the Navy’s first but not final choice
By Published: May 14, 2021 SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) The Navy has determined it would like to work alongside private developers to replace its familiar-but-obsolete hangars along Interstate 5 with new facilities, thousands of homes, plenty of office space for large companies, two hotels and community shops in towers stretching as high as 350 feet with a transit center to boot. The preliminary decision for the 70-acre site in the Midway District, commonly referred to as NAVWAR, was published Friday by the United States Department of the Navy in what s known as a draft environmental impact statement. The 730-page document, now available to the public for a 60-day comment period, considers the impacts of five scenarios of varying intensity on things such as traffic, views and air quality. The report, required by the National Environmental Policy Act, identifies the highest-density plan, which would introduce 10,000 homes and 70,000 more car trips per day to the area at
By Craig Hoyle2021-05-06T15:50:00+01:00
Having provided in-service support to the UK Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) tactical airlifter fleet for a remarkable 55 years, Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group (MADG) knew that their relationship on the Lockheed Martin C-130 could not last forever.
But the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) March announcement that operations with the service’s remaining 14 J-model Hercules would come to an end in 2023 – 12 years earlier than previously planned – nonetheless came as “disappointing news” to the Cambridge airport-based company.
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Royal Air Force tactical transport fleet entered use from 1999
“There was always a risk the UK would retire [them] a bit earlier, so it was not a complete surprise,” interim chief executive Gary Moynehan tells FlightGlobal. In fact, he says the company had been de-risking the potential for their accelerated withdrawal since the publication of the MoD’s 2015 Strategic Defence
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TYSONS, Va., March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The United States Naval Community College today announced the successful launch of the first online course in a series of online credentials designed to provide targeted continuing education and training opportunities for the Navy s 500,000 enlisted personnel. The new course, Naval Leadership, will form the first of five online offerings for USNCC s Naval Core Certificate, which will focus on naval heritage, history, ethics, and other advanced subjects aligned with naval sciences. At a time when U.S. armed forces are facing new and global threats and ascendant challenges, military and civilian leadership have recognized the imperative of developing a more unified approach and making leadership education and training opportunities more accessible across today s Navy, said Randi Cosentino, president of the United States Naval Community College. This work is an important step in the modern Navy s tran