ACHP Section 3 Report to the President

NASA, GSA, AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY COLLABORATE TO REHABILITATE HISTORIC AIRFIELD In 2015 GSA concluded commercial lease negotiations to rehabilitate and operate NASA’s 1,100-acre historic Moffett Federal Airfield in California’s Silicon Valley.The 60-year public-private partnership between NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC) and Planetary Ventures (a subsidiary of Google) will eliminate NASA’s management costs and rehabilitate the historic Hangar One for private business use while meeting the needs of the federal government and California National Air Guard to retain a limited use airfield.The lease area falls within the NRHP-listed Shenandoah Plaza Historic District. ARC is using proceeds from the lease to maintain and upgrade its historic properties.This is the first large-scale Section 111 lease NASA has executed, and it is serving as a model for future leases. (Note: NASA has previously entered into another Section 111 lease with Carnegie Mellon University to occupy Buildings 23 and 24 within the Shenandoah Plaza Historic District at Ames.)

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Hangar I at Moffett Field 2008 aerial view (color) of NASA research park, Moffett Airfield, CA showing Shenandoah Parade Grounds and Plaza 1943 photo (black and white) of N. Moffett Field, east from front gate toward Shenandoah Plaza and Hangar One (all photos courtesy NASA)

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