After this initial reprieve, the War Department announced in 1922 that facilities on the original closure list would indeed close in the very near future.
The parks on the closure list are expected to be open this summer and reservations for this summer will be honored.
In the end, politics won out over economics, and Fort DeRussey was omitted from the closure list.
But he stopped short of guaranteeing a decision to include the Guam base on the final closure list.
As part of its bankruptcy, the company sold or closed all of its hospitals with Bellwood General being on the closure list.
In 1981, the facility was removed from the closure list and funding for maintenance and construction was restored.
Simmons led the successful fight to save the base and the BRAC removed it from its closure list on August 24, 2005.
If no decision is reached by then, the closure list will go into effect.
The mall's location was not included in the closure list released by the company.
In February 2010, he succeeded in helping Guggenheim Elementary School get off the closure list.