MILITARY BASES AND COMMUNITIES: DESCRIPTION

Military base communities and the private sector need to turn to experienced and knowledgeable advisors and attorneys to guide them in addressing redevelopment or expansion issues.

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and Hurt Norton & Associates have teamed together to provide professional assistance to communities and their local redevelopment authorities that are dealing with closure, realignment or expansion. We further provide services to the private sector addressing the real estate assets and human capital represented by these bases, including real estate developers, government contractors, environmental engineers and financial institutions. In particular, we have pioneered the Transitional Benefit Corporation model that may allow civilian jobs to be retained even in a closure situation.

Our Military Bases and Communities team is highlighted by a number of professionals with extensive experience handling military base issues, including:

• Robert Tritt – co-chair of McKenna Long & Aldridge's Military Bases and Communities practice who is actively engaged representing communities and private sector in the round of 2005 closings and in the development of public-private partnerships, including enhanced use leasing transactions
• Stephen Sorett – co-chair of McKenna Long & Aldridge’s Military Bases and Communities practice who is nationally recognized as an expert in privatization, public-private partnerships, financial transactions, and government contracts
• Steven Labovitz – partner who focuses on privatization, formulating public-private partnerships and identifying economic development incentives to create public-private partnerships
• Senator Zell Miller – Public Policy Advisor and former Governor who led Georgia through four previous BRAC rounds
• Frank Norton – former professional staff member, Committee on Armed Services, US Senate
• CeCe Siracuse – Director of Congressional and  Intergovernmental Affairs for 1995 BRAC Committee; former staff member, US Senator Sam Nunn
• Paul Johnson – former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations & Housing
• Duncan Holaday – former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Facilities)
• Joe Plunkett – former Southeast Region Director, Installation Management Command, US Army
• Stephen Kay – former staff member, US Senator Zell Miller

Our team includes attorneys and public policy advisors experienced in military base transactions with specialties in real estate, privatization, enhanced use leasing, finance, brownfields redevelopment, energy development, government contracts and government affairs.

For further information, contact our Military Bases and Communities practice co-chairs: