Charleston Naval Complex, South Carolina

When it was decommissioned in 1993, this major Navy shipyard had almost 20,000 workers. The facility is being turned over to the city, once the Navy has fully evacuated and remediated the site. New tenants are being sought.The complex is a heavily industrialized 1,500 acres with over four and a half miles of shoreline on the Cooper River, north of the city of Charleston. Also known as the Charleston Naval Shipyard, nuclear submarines were service here.