Concord base closer to closure - nearly 5,200 acres of the 12,800-acre base, could eventually support up to 13,500 homes and 15,000 jobs

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East Bay Business Times - 2:33 PM PDT Wednesday

Concord base closer to closure

At a Wednesday meeting of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, the panel voted 59-1 to support a recommendation to shut down the inland portion of Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Detachment Concord.

A final vote on the matter is scheduled for Aug. 27. If the recommendation is upheld again, the base formerly known as the Concord Naval Weapons Station will join 33 other facilities nationwide being shut down by the U.S. Department of Defense, while another 29 are being realigned for new uses.

Port operations in the waterfront portion of the facility, now called Military Ocean Terminal Concord, will continue.

The closure should come as good news to Concord city officials, who have lobbied for the facility's closure. The inland area, which comprises nearly 5,200 acres of the 12,800-acre base, could eventually support up to 13,500 homes and enough offices, stores and warehouses to generate up to 15,500 jobs.