Updates Given on NGA Sites

Date Posted: March 17, 2015

Posted In: News, Projects,

From the Belleville News-Democrat: Mark Kern, the St. Clair County Board chairman, made headlines a few weeks ago when he said the county was willing to donate nearly 200 acres of land free of charge as an incentive to lure the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to the county from its current home in downtown St. Louis.

The county’s generosity is understandable. If the agency decides to build its new 800,000-square-foot facility in St. Clair County, at a site adjacent to Scott Air Force Base, that would mean the addition of 3,000 good-paying jobs to the area.

But so far the response from NGA to Kern’s offer is a variation of thanks, but no thanks.