Dallas is seeking damages and a firm timeline in a lawsuit filed this month saying the Navy has breached the terms of a 2002 legal settlement agreement to...
The Navy agreed in a 2002 court settlement with Dallas to pay the city more than $18 million and clean up the site by 2017. Remediation efforts to clean the soil have concluded and been approved by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, according to the city last year. But groundwater contamination still hasn’t been fully addressed.
The City Council last December approved a 20-year plan estimated to cost around $390 million to turn Hensley Field into a new walkable community with more than 6,800 new homes, over 12,000 jobs, new parks and waterfront trails, a marina, a possible film studio and other amenities. Aircraft maintenance hangars built in the 1940s and 1970s, military officers’ houses from the 1930s and a 1-acre cemetery that has been around since the mid-1800s are historic sites at Hensley Field there that could be preserved or repurposed, according to theAccording to the latest lawsuit, the Navy asked the city to create the redevelopment plan in January 2019 to help guide the remediation work.
City Manager T.C. Broadnax said Dallas plans to keep working with the Navy to clean the site as the legal dispute continues. “We appreciate all of the U.S. Navy’s efforts to remediate the site for the past 20 years,” Broadnax said in a statement. “We are confident that we can reach an agreement on the final phase of the project that ensures Hensley Field can be safely developed into a premier community offering mixed income housing, recreation, commercial space, and more.”
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