1,100-Acre Base Conversion Moves Forward

WILLOW GROVE, PA-The state’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs has selected L. Robert Kimball & Associates to prepare an implementation plan for the joint interagency facility on the 1,100-acre former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve base here. The architectural and engineering firm is due to complete its plan in February 2008.

The selection represents the first step in turning the military base, which was doomed by the Base Closure and Realignment Commission, into a security hub that will house military units and civilian emergency response and preparedness agencies. As GlobeSt.com previously reported, efforts to maintain the facility culminated, after a two-year battle, with federal legislation.