This week the Monterey County Board of Supervisors pulled its support for a planned transit center on Fort Ord. It’s a victory for a group that aims to preserve recreation on the former Fort.
On a recent visit to the Monterey Bay Area, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar voiced his support for making Fort Ord lands a National Monument. KAZU’s Krista Almanzan reports on what monument status would mean and what’s next.
A classroom on Monterey Peninsula College's new campus looks out on land that the college will expand on, if other development picks up on the former Army base.
Marina, CA – Development on the former Fort Ord has slowed to a crawl along with the economy. In part two of our series on the reuse of the former Army base, we look at what progress is being made and what to expect in the near future. KAZU News Director Krista Almanzan reports.
Marina, CA – The closure of Fort Ord just north of Monterey left behind a piece of land roughly the size of San Francisco. Now nearly 20 years later, redevelopment has not gone as expected. KAZU News Director Krista Almanzan has the first of our two part story.