What's sort of confusing is the "secret" aspect of this . . in that it was never a secret. There's a lot of stuff on NTRS about it (used to be much more). If you watch the documentary, you'll see that the locals were not only informed about what was going on, but were gung-ho and hoped to see thousands of jobs materialize out of the effort. Once the AJ-260 program was shut down and Aerojet left, the whole site really lost its purpose.
It's more precise to say the project has been forgotten, rather than it having been under wraps. The buildings that were demolished were in a deteriorating state, especially after Hurricane Andrew. C-111, the Aerojet Canal, like most man-made efforts in the Everglades, really screwed up the water flow and, I think, the water management district is proposing to fill it in. Except for space geeks and the occasional urban explorer, it's just some old land and buildings. For those with a sense of history[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif], [/font][font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]it's a sad and lonely reminder of what might have been.[/font]
