Gold Rush: Knox community prepares for influx

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Gold Rush: Knox community prepares for influx
By Roger Alford - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Feb 3, 2008 16:24:35 EST

FRANKFORT, Ky. — New houses, apartments, even entire subdivisions are popping up around Fort Knox to prepare for the arrival of thousands of families who will be moving to Kentucky over the next two years.

Changes inside the military installation, home of the nation’s gold repository, are expected to create an economic revival for the communities that surround it. State officials are taking steps to help the communities prepare for what’s coming.

Under a reorganization announced in 2005, the Army is moving its Human Resources Command and the 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division to Fort Knox next year. In addition, soldiers from the Army Accessions Command and Army Cadet Command would move there by 2010, and soldiers from the 84th Army Reserve Region Training Center by 2011.

Col. Mark Needham, garrison commander at Fort Knox, told Kentucky lawmakers last week that the military installation will see an overall gain some 2,000 civilian workers and about 2,500 soldiers from the Pentagon base realignment.

The moves will have an economic impact that exceeds anything private investors have done in Kentucky in decades, said state Rep. Jeff Greer, D-Brandenburg.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_fortknox_080203/

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1. Can someone explain the "why" of this to me? I may be just

a little too skeptical when reviewing the article.

Somehow this government has me wondering about the reason for their every move.