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  • U.S. Air Force property declared surplus under Base Realignment and Closure is now in productive reuse at the former George AFB where General Electric Aviation opened shop to test aircraft engines on planes like this 747-400.

    Flying High Again: Logistics facility leading redevelopment effort at former George AFB

    Once a bustling flight training facility, the former George Air Force Base was the economic backbone for nearby Victorville, Calif., employing nearly 6,000 civilian and military personnel at its peak.In 1992 the Base Realignment and Closure Act ended George's military era in the Californial high desert.However, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center
  • J.D. Wang, CEO of reRubber, is bringing 120 green jobs to his factory in the former Norton Air Force Base commissary. The company, headquartered in nearby Ontario, Calif., recycles some of the 300 million tires scrapped in the U.S. each year into products like flooring for playgrounds. (Photo by Scott Johnston)

    Closed Air Force Bases Open for Green Business: Recycling on a grand scale

    Whether it's small as a cell phone or big as a 5,000-acre Air Force base, it can be recycled. J.D. Wang, CEO of a company called reRubber, believes we can recycle anything if we put our minds to it. So it seems fitting that his tire-recycling company is expanding into a recycled building - once the commissary at the former Norton Air Force Base in
  • The Air Force has been working to clean up pollution at the former George AFB since 1981. A new Performance Based Remediation Contract will close an estimated 18 of 33 remaining active cleanup sites over the next eight years, resulting in unrestricted use of those sites. (Photo by Scott Johnston)

    $41.5M Environmental Cleanup Contract Awarded at Former George AFB

    The Air Force Real Property Agency has awarded a Performance Based Remediation contract valued at approximately $41.5 million for environmental cleanup work at the former George Air Force Base in Victorville, Calif. Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure, Inc., headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, received the contract, which has an eight-year
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