Make a date with advanced technology. The Aerospace Corporation will be on campus * See your A .:-.placement ffice.ren S The Aerospace Corporation Page 6-Friday, October 3, 1980-The Michigan Daily .P. town reborn Community rises from Kincheloe base ruins* KINROSS, Mich. (AP)-Kincheloe Air Force Base looked as if it had been hit by nerve gas. Barracks were silent. Cavernous hangars stood empty. Pen- cils and half-written orders littered deserted desks. Built in 1941 to protect the nearby Soo Locks during World War II, the base outlived its usefulness and three years ago was closed. SEVEN HUNDRED civilian jobs vanished, along with support business for the base's 10,000 residents. It seemed the last nail in the economic coffin of an already depressed area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. But the gloom has given way to a glow of economic promise. A minimum- security state prison has moved in, providing jobs for 300. The hangars . have been converted into a bustling in- dustrial park. A California develop- ment firm is touting 'Woodside," a 1,200-house project created from the old Kincheloe officers' quarters. The phoenix hasn't risen from the ashes, but it's certainly flapping its wings. "WHO COULD expect that a com- muntiy on the northern tier of this coun- try, within a period of three years, would completely replace 700 jobs and fill all the existing buildings on that base," asked Wallace Bishop Jr., a regional director of the Office of Economic Ad- justment, a federal program that helps communities survive military base closures or personnel cutbacks at defense plants. Robert Risik remembers the first day he came to Kincheloe. Then city manager of the small tourist town of Manistique, Risik, 31, was offered the job as director of the Base Conversion Authority, a state agency created to help local officials. "I CAME OVER here and there was a prison, some 100 empty buildings and 1,200 empty houses," said Risik. "I though there was no way I could screw it up. The situation could only im- prove." Risik said the effort has far exceeded his expectations and predicts that by 1985, 5,000 people will live here, 2,000 of them with jobs created since the Air Force left. "You're going to have a new com- munity rising out of this rubble," said Risik. "I don't know what it will be called, or if it will be a city, village or chartered township, but there will be a new creation here." NEW TOWN, or whatever its shapers decide to call the community 18 miles south of Sault Ste. Marie and the Canadian border, has no small number of built-in advantages. The base airport, now known as the Chippewa County International Air- port, has a 300-foot-wide runway 3,500 feet longer than the main runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Air- port. The 4,000-acre abandoned base boasts twa elementary schools, a modern sewer plant and 29 miles of paved roads. And it's all paid for. "When it's created, this will be a debt free community," Risik said. "There will be no debt retirement to worry about." THE 1,000 PEOPLE living here-both old and new residents-don't seem bothered by the Kinross Correctional Facility, the sprawling minimum- security prison established here after the Air Force left. Two developers even want the state to expand it. "We answer people's questions, if they ask," said James Nevis, a Mon- terey, Calif., developer and a partner in Announcing the low maintenance haircut. At Command Performance. It continues to help your hair hold its shape even as it grows.u Because the hairstyle you want is adapted to the hair you have. It's not only easy to take care of. It also makes it easy to get all the looks you're looking for. Shampoo, precision cut and blow dry for men and women. $14. No appointment necessary, ever. Command Performance' For the looks that get the looks" We're brand new in the new Kroger Center (next to Wayside Theatre) on Washtenaw, just East of US-23 Special Get-Acquainted Offer: Shampoo, precision cut and blowdry, just $10. With This Ad. Offer expires c 0 L1. c U Q) G 0' Woodside. "We have to answer those questions. The prison is here and the signs are everywhere." His partner, Charles Lunt Jr., said a bigger facility would mean more jobs and more local business. "THE INMATES there are at the end of their terms and they're not problem," said Lunt. "And if 'they enlarge, we have more guards, tihere support business. and the prospeKf of selling more houses." Nevis and Lunt are running a slick advertising campaign to sell Woodside. An eight-page color tabloid insert -for major Midwestern newspapers describes the homes, at prices from $16,900 to $55,000, and highlights tie area's physical beauty and nearby tourist attractions, such as Mackinac Island. "We're trying to do the things that will get people here, like clear cross- country ski trails and build bieycle motocross trails for kids," said Nevis. "We think there are a lot of peoplewfho want to leave the cities-if they have~a job. JOBS-critically needed in a country with an unemployment rate of 15.8 per- cent-are coming. More than 900 peopltW are working at the industrial park, doe to efforts by the county board aqd Economic Development Commissibn.' "Our incentives can't be beatenk" said EDC president Michael McCarthy. "We offer a 50 percent tax abatenent over 12 years, low interest loans aid developed land at a lease cost of 10 ce - ts a square foot, compared to $2 a foot In large, metropolitan industrial parks. "But we had to overcome the sim myth that the Upper Peninsula isn't tit for manufacturing," he added. "We' e shown these people that we're close to rail lines and major highways. Anti e have a tax rate of 28.5 mills, compared with 75 to 100 in large industrial parks. 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