Monday, March 29, 2010
Deadline Has Passed for Community Nomination but You Can Still Show Your Support
Most importantly, spread the word. Let your friends, family, and coworkers know how important it will be especially if they live in the area. The time to nominate a community may be up according to Google's submission form, but in reality, now is actually the time when deals get done. When government officials have the paper work from Google in their hands that could have a significant impact on the lives of people in the area for years to come, you should show them that you support what they are doing and how much it would mean to the surrounding communities and the people that live and work there.
Fort Monmouth is really the ideal place for Google to come because it was already a place where technological innovation in communications happened on a daily basis. It still is and will be until the fort closes. It should continue to be long after Fort Monmouth is gone. The grounds and buildings are readily available and suited to support high tech companies and their aspirations such as Google's Experimental Fiber Network (especially Google's Fiber Network almost to the point of serendipity). Tens of millions of dollars have been invested in them over decades to make them that way. It would really be a waste if no innovative high tech companies like Google were able to take advantage of the preexisting infrastructure. Why tear that all down when there is an opportunity to bring jobs and innovative industry back to the area?
So let the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority (FMERPA) know and let everybody else you know who lives and/or works in the area know too so that something can maybe actually happen!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Ideas for the Reuse of Fort Monmouth
Ideas for the Reuse of Fort Monmouth
(by Frank Rogers)
Please post any comments or suggestions you may have.
Thanks
Google High Speed Fiber Network in Fort Monmouth, NJ
Google High Speed Fiber Network in
Fort Monmouth/Monmouth County, New Jersey Area –
Ideas for economic redevelopment, reinvigoration, and facility reuse.
The Monmouth County area has a rich culture and history in the fields of communication and innovation of high technology in general. Holmdel was once home to the historic Bell Labs complex for over forty-four years, which produced several Nobel Prize winning inventions and countless innovations that we still make use of today. Several locations including the old Camp Evans, the Deal Test Site, and Fort Monmouth have their historic roots with Marconi, RCA, Western Electric, AT&T, Lucent, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, General Electric, MIT Radiation Laboratory, Chrysler and many other innovative 20th century technology companies. Radio towers, telegraphs, to LEDs, silicon transistors, night vision, and communication stations have been tested and improved upon in this area.
Colleges such as Monmouth University and Brookdale Community College are close by along with the Monmouth County Vocational School District Career Academies (some of the highest ranking schools in the nation), who would also provide facilities for Google to test their high bandwidth connections on a experimental basis (http://www.mcvsd.org/acad/).
Hopefully, Google, state, county, and local government officials will consider this high bandwidth experiment as an opportunity that should be fully explored. Please stay tuned as I update this blog with more information on Google's plans to launch experimental ultra-high speed broadband networks as well as the Fort Monmouth Revitalization Planning Authority's plans for the Fort Monmouth grounds.