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Mason, an IDB member, community volunteer, dies of COVID complications

Posted at 1:07 pm January 8, 2021
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

David Mason

David Lane Mason, a member of the Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board and community volunteer, died of COVID-19 complications on Monday. He was 79.

Mason was a former deputy director of environmental management and enrichment facilities at the former K-25 site, and he retired from the United States Enrichment Corporation in 2005 as the director of Centrifuge Engineering and Manufacturing Project, according to his obituary.

As a founding member of the Oak Ridge Rowing Association, Mason helped develop and build the rowing course at Melton Hill Lake, his obituary said. As a member of the Sunset Rotary Club of Oak Ridge, he helped establish the annual Da Vinci Arts and Science Fair for elementary and middle school students, the obituary said.

A nuclear physicist and Oak Ridge resident, Mason died at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville on Monday. He was a community advocate for more than 50 years, his obituary said.

Here is more information about Dave Mason from his obituary:

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Filed Under: Business, Community, COVID-19, Front Page News, Government, Health, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Boys and Girls Club of Oak Ridge, COVID-19, Dave Mason, Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board, Oak Ridge Rowing Association, Rotary Club

Obituary: David Lane Mason

Posted at 10:18 am January 8, 2021
By Sandra Weatherford Leave a Comment

David Mason

David Lane Mason, 79, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, passed away on Monday January 4, 2021, from COVID-19 complications at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. David was a nuclear physicist and community advocate for over 50 years.

Dave was born on August 18, 1941, to David Franklin and Mildred Lane Mason in Madison, Tennessee. He grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he met his future wife, Judy, when they both attended Clarksville High School. Dave was the first person in his family to go to college, and he attended Austin Peay State University for a bachelor of arts in physics and mathematics. During this time, he was a summer student at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies program. After graduation from APSU and his marriage to Judy in 1962, Dave went on to graduate school at the University of Florida, where he received a doctorate in nuclear physics. He completed his dissertation research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Obituaries Tagged With: Dave Mason, David Lane Mason, obituary

CORRE has annual membership meeting on Monday

Posted at 10:37 am October 19, 2014
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The Coalition of Oak Ridge Retirees will have its annual meeting at 2 p.m. Monday, October 20, at the Heritage Fellowship Church in Oak Ridge.

CORRE is an organization of retirees that works to improve the welfare of more than 12,000 former employees and surviving spouses of the various managing contractors of U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge. All retirees, their spouses, and surviving spouses are urged to attend and are encouraged to bring other retirees, a press release said.

CORRE expects about 200-250 retirees and spouses to attend, and invitations have been extended to members of the East Tennessee congressional delegation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Community, Oak Ridge, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Coalition of Oak Ridge Retired Employees, contractors, CORRE, Dave Mason, employees, Heritage Fellowship Church, membership meeting, retirees, surviving spouses, U.S. Department of Energy

Mall project clears critical hurdle Monday

Posted at 3:03 pm September 30, 2014
By John Huotari 13 Comments

Oak Ridge Village Area Rendering

 

Tim Sittema

Tim Sittema

Council, IDB approve TIF extension, grant, roadway work

The proposed redevelopment of the Oak Ridge mall cleared a critical hurdle on Monday when city officials agreed to extend a property tax agreement for the 59-acre project, authorize $2 million in roadway and other infrastructure work, and offer a $500,000 grant if some federal funding is not approved.

Officials described the proposed redevelopment, named Main Street Oak Ridge, as an $80 million project that could fill a “hole in the heart” of Oak Ridge, bring new retail life to the city’s downtown, and build a lasting legacy.

Monday’s moves were meant to reduce the risk for four local lenders that could combine to offer $13 million in loans to part of the redevelopment under a tax increment financing, or TIF, agreement. That incentive would use new property tax revenues generated at the mall site and 120 surrounding acres included in the TIF area to repay those loans. Officials said the loans could be repaid in 18 years, according to financial models.

David Bradshaw

David Bradshaw

But in two separate special meetings on Monday, the Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board and Oak Ridge City Council agreed to extend the TIF term from 20 years to 30. That extra 10 years is meant to act as a “shock absorber” and help make sure that the banks are repaid if there is a “glitch” in the project that would push the repayment past the previously approved 20-year term, officials said.

“This is not a ‘home run’ project for us as financial institutions,” said David R. Bradshaw, Oak Ridge president of CapitalMark Bank and Trust, one of the financial institutions that could participate. But, he added, “It is the right thing to do for the community.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Government, Government, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, Slider, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Commission, Anne Garcia Garland, Belk, Buzz Patrick, Charlie Hensley, Chris Johnson, Crosland Southeast, Dave Mason, David Bradshaw, David Wilson, Economic Development Administration, EDA, grant, Harold Trapp, infrastructure improvements, JCPenney, leases, leasing, Lou Dunlap, Main Street—Oak Ridge, Mark Mamantov, Mark Watson, Oak Ridge City Council, Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board, Oak Ridge Mall, ORNL Federal Credit Union, property tax, public infrastructure, retail, retail space, Richard Chinn, roadway work, tax increment financing, TIF, TIF extension, Tim Sittema, Tom Beehan, Trina Baughn

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