Hoping the housing market will revive when relocating government workers and contractors move in to the region as part of the base realignment and closure process? Then you'll be interested to hear that the state is having a grand opening today for its newest one-stop career center -- this one located at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey. That's one of the bases slated to send personnel here.

Not surprisingly, this is the state's first out-of-state center.

From the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation's press release:

The center will be staffed by professionals to serve New Jersey families moving from Fort Monmouth to Maryland. Resources available at the center include job search and training information, tools for professionals who will need to be registered or licensed to work in Maryland, community and housing resources, and a host of other resources to help prepare for the move.

It's an open question how many people will actually make that move. The Army addresses the issue in a BRAC Q&A:

How many Monmouth civilians are expected to refuse to move to Aberdeen? Has Fort Monmouth done any surveys that indicate what employees are thinking?

... [I]t is much too early to estimate with any accuracy how many employees may or may not go to Aberdeen. We did recently survey our workforce, however, and about 30% of our employees indicated they were likely to relocate to Aberdeen. However, this is at best a very preliminary estimate. What we can say is that based on the high number of personnel eligible for retirement in our workforce, we expect a lot of our employees to retire between now and the movement date, which will of course reduce the percentage of our current workforce who would relocate.

Of course, someone will have to fill those Aberdeen Proving Ground jobs. One assumes they'll either have to move here from somewhere (if not Fort Monmouth) or they're already living here now. And if they're already here now and aren't unemployed, they'll leave vacancies at their current jobs that will have to be filled, potentially by people from out of town ...

Oh the dominos.