This would really hurt Monmouth County...
What would make a lot of sense is to transfer Fort Monmouth to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. They could use it to incarcerate Monmouth County and municipality politicians, including former Freeholder Larrison, as well as the contractors and developers that have been bribing them.
Of course, it would have more capacity than needed for just Monmouth County, so it could be a "magnet prison" for New Jersey, (sort of like magnet schools) for the most talented and egregious malefactors in politics and business in the Northeast.
For example, you could run a bus from Trenton down I-195, filled with statehouse grafters, and up the Garden State Parkway to the Route 36 exit. Along the way, they could periodically stop to pick up roadside trash.
Monmouth County is booming because of its proximity to NYC and great lifestyle. Housing is still expensive. Of all the places to take a hit, I would think it was better equipped to recover than Niagara Falls or Rome or one of these extremely rural bases.