Posted on 03/16/2022 11:43:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The city of Marina plans to tear down dozens of old military barracks and buildings that are no longer in use in Fort Ord and turn them into spaces that people and families will use.
"We have a lot of work to do," said Marina Mayor, Bruce Delgado.
Advertisement Marina City Council is looking to remove 32 run-down military housing units near the Marina High School, on Third Avenue and Rendova Avenue.
It is located in a former Fort Ord neighborhood, known as Cypress Knolls. The city will use $1.6 million from the Fort Ord Reuse Authority to complete the high-priority project.
The Fort Ord Reuse Authority oversaw the Monterey bay regional economic recovery from the closure of the Fort Ord Army installation. The authority has since closed and the city of Marina was given $15.1 million to continue rebuilding their area of Fort Ord.
When it came to that area, Delgado said, "doesn't look safe, doesn't feel safe. So we are going to open that up, so that they can have an open safe corridor, instead of an abandoned building with graffiti and broken windows to see every day on their way to school,"
Before any buildings can be torn down, the council will vote on Tuesday, March 15 to authorize a consulting firm to prepare demolition bids. Those bids will go out to the public so that construction firms can bid on doing the demo near the high school.
"The best value that we get in response to our bid offering, we will pick the construction firm to demolition the lead, asbestos, all the wood, lead paint," Delgado said.
Demolishing old military buildings is a project that is years in the making. But the 32 abandoned buildings coming down near the high school is only the beginning.
The city is looking to use another $3.5 million from the Fort Ord Reuse Authority to turn an old Army basketball court into a multi-use sports facility, located on Second Avenue behind the Marina Shopping Center.
The city also plans to build a city park in the same area, which is home to more than 30 abandoned barracks.
The mayor said the rebuilding of former Fort Ord is a marathon.
"So it's important for us to progress on all these projects because, you know, the quality of life and the services of our residents have the same desires and are just the same as any other city." "So everyone's pretty eager for those to happen because there's a lot of families and young children in Marina that are looking forward to this," Delgado said.
The city hopes to have the 32 buildings by the Marina High School demolition started by this year.
Fort Ord on a foggy windy day.
They’re afraid the homeless will be housed there.
It’s a beautiful piece of property and those old barracks probably do need to go.
That said, I’m sure the liberals will find a way to screw it up.
Shoulda been torn down a long time ago.
Looks hideous, creepy and decaying.
But with foreigners like “Bruce” Delgado running the show, the fact that it looks like a bombed out village in the Third World was no problem for what, two decades?
Now he gets religion.
Just turn it all over to private enterprise, they’ll turn it into East Garrison and more basinesses like Joby will locate at the airport industrial area.
But we know the only Green Party Mayor in California would rather barf then do that.
There are both abandoned in the Monterey/ Fort Ord area, left to rot while homeless swamp the bay area and LA.
When I was there in 1971, at DLI at the Presidio, the Monterey bay area wasn't the most military friendly location I was ever associated with, except maybe Tilly Gorts.
The majority of it is a National Monument you can go hiking on.
Did my basic training at Fort Ord.
Just north of Monterey and Carmel.
Right on the beach.
Many rifle ranges were on the beach.
Most beautiful it was.
I thought for a second the high schoolers might be triggered knowing people with guns were there once. We lived in the area in the early 50’s and my dad attended some sort of training there. Industrial War College maybe? We went to Ft. Ord for a weapons demo one time. AWESOME! I had a staple put in my forehead at the dispensary there. Think IIRC 2nd/3rd grade time frame.
Of course, I realized I didn't have it so bad: 4 1/2 years in Germany (lived in Traben-Trarbach, my commute my last two years took me through the Urziger Wurzgarten vineyards), and 4 years at Fort Bliss (El Paso)...awesome weather there.
I could have been with an Infantry unit that trained 8 months out of the year in the red mud at Grafenwohr. Instead, I was on a couple of AF bases during my tour in Germany.
My understanding is the the only thing keeping all that beautiful beach front property from being turned into ‘ugly boxes’ (Eagles Hotel CA reference), is the fact that much of it has environmental cleanup from use as shooting or artillery ranges that still needs to be done. I think it’s better undeveloped personally. But those old barracks are an eyesore.
My father did his army basic training at Fort Ord in 1940.
When I went to the foreign language school at the DLI in nearby Monterey in 1983 - 1984, I drove him through the fort. He said it looked almost exactly the same as in 1940.
I wonder when they will clear the artillery range in the hills to the east?
The Naval Post Graduate School is located there (founded in 1909) so that might be the place your father went to.
A lot of the older base housing had asbestos in it.
86-90, I could see Marina high school from my house
As an ex-sailor I found that the locals in any Military Base area treat the servicemen like shyt. When the Navy shut down all those bases in Dago I thought back on being harassed by the SDPD and laughed at the economic payback. All those crooked businesses along the main drag... too bad for you.
The liberals will find a way to profit. Mr. Dianne Feinstein profited handsomely from the base closure. Especially Fort Ord. Now Monterey State Uni.
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