Is Mare Island Navel Base CA. too old to rebuild? It used to build state of art submarines, perhaps it to can be restored.
A shipyard on the West Coast besides Puget Sound is a strategic necessity. Need one in Alaska too. At least there is a steel mill up there. Militarily, we have way too many eggs in way too few baskets.
It was decrepit 40 years ago when i went there for a project.
There has been enough gentrification around Mare Is, and it’s California. I would suspect it would tke ten years of enviro protests to get it going again. I take it you know the yard dates from the Civil War, I’d imagine there isn’t even a guard shack on the base that could be re-used. A friend of mine’s Dad used to work there and we’d occasionally drop in back in the 70’s to wander around where we could. It was beat to hell even back then. With the asbestos and the toxics, I bet it would qualify as a Superfund site.