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by Tom Breckenridge, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Fairview Park officials are trying desperately to stanch a loss of hundreds of thousands of income tax dollars from the city’s largest employer, the NASA Glenn Research Center.

The center plans to move hundreds of civil servants and contractors from two office buildings in Fairview Park, north of Brookpark Road, in the early stages of a 20-year plan to redevelop its Cold War-era campus.

Several hundred civil servants have already moved to NASA buildings in Brook Park, south of Brookpark Road, dealing what will be a $265,000 blow to Fairview Park’s $4.6 million budget for daily operations, Mayor Eileen Patton said today.

A NASA Glenn spokeswoman said, though, that only 60 workers have moved from the site in the past two years.

In any event, Fairview Park wants to hang on to some 450 contractors that remain in the larger of two buildings at the site.

But a top NASA Glenn official said today they are scheduled to move shortly.

The exodus would mean even more pain for the western suburb, where employees have accepted a wage freeze, furlough days and lower-cost health care, Patton said.

“We can’t afford to have that happen,” Patton said. “It affects our employees, as well as services to our residents.”

Fairview Park and NASA Glenn officials differed in their views of how development was to occur on the 19 acres north of Brookpark.

 

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Story Courtesy Of The Plain Dealer