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  • Former McClellan Air Force Base, which closed in July 2001, is an ideal location for Cal Fire aircraft as the base was known as a logistics center housing various aircraft.

    Long-time tenant of former McClellan AFB provides lifeline to firefighters

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – One after another, massive aircraft are continuously making a giant loop from the former McClellan Air Force Base, heading north to Butte County to fight the deadliest and most destructive fire in California’s history.For 65 years, McClellan served the nation as an air depot before closing in 2001. Today, it’s a redeveloped
  • Award accepted by AFCEC from EPA for their efforts at the former McClellan Air Force Base, in Sacramento County, California.

    EPA honors AFCEC team at former McClellan Air Force Base with national site reuse award

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Installations Directorate, Base Realignment and Closure Division was recently awarded with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first annual National Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse award for their work at the former McClellan Air Force Base, in Sacramento County. The award is in recognition of the exemplary work to transform the Superfund site into a successful business park. The 3,452-acre McClellan Business Park now supports more than 17,000 jobs and has generated $580 million in public and private investment.
  • The former McClellan AFB is now known as McClellan Park, a thriving business park and residential community, with more than 15,000 people on the base daily. The Radar facility on the former base is currently being used by the Wildlife Care Association as a rehabilitation center for more than 6,000 orphaned and injured animals each year spanning four counties, including where former McClellan AFB resides. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Amanda Williams)

    Former Air Force radar dome now a wildlife rehab facility

    Before McClellan Air Force Base closed in 2001, the maintenance directorate on the base utilized a massive 30-foot radar dome for research and development of the AN/FPS 117, a three-dimensional (azimuth-range-height) phased array antenna radar. Today the Wildlife Care Association is reusing the facility, which bears resemblance to a small-scale version of Disney’s Epcot Center.
  • A shot of the McClellan Business Park Entrance. The combined efforts of the U.S. Air Force BRAC Cleanup Team, McClellan Business Park, Sacramento County and the community have led to the transformation of McClellan Air Force Base into one of California's most unique corporate communities, bringing jobs and economic growth to the region. More people work at McClellan today than when the base was open, and the extensive environmental cleanup is on the home stretch. (Courtesy photo)

    Former McClellan Air Force Base Wins “National Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse” Award

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Base Realignment and Closure division won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first annual National Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse award in the National Priorities List-BRAC category for its efforts at the former McClellan Air Force Base, May 2, 2018.
  • In what used to be a vacant lot across from the “base gym” on the former McClellan Air Force Base, Calif., is now a model community for helping the homeless. This village of 83 newly-built apartments is a safe haven for 100 recently homeless parents and more than 200 of their children. (U.S. Air Force photo/Susan Wolbarst)

    Homeless find hope at closed California bases

    In California, as the temperature drops and the number of homeless people climbs, former Air Force bases around the state offer warm relief. Transitional housing is one of the many ways communities are using property on closed military bases for local benefit. These villages of hope offer the homeless, out-of-work population a chance to learn new
  • 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
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