A turn in the South
A blue-collar military town transforms itself into a white-collar security cluster
UNTIL the government closed it in 1996, the navy base in Charleston was the region's economic engine. The navy was Charleston's largest employer, directly providing work for more than 22,000 people. But after a decade of decay, some 340 acres (140 hectares) of the site is now part of a 3,000-acre redevelopment plan in North Charleston called Noisette, billed as “a city within a city” and costing $3 billion over 20 years. The redeveloped navy shipyard has already attracted a number of green businesses. Clemson University's research campus has also moved there.
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