Now a lot of properties have fewer days on market and are getting snapped up by eager buyers that are outbidding each other and at least in Alameda and Contra Costa County it is a very strong sellers market right now.

UPS wants to fly its entire fleet of aircraft remotely from a central location with 10 people.Many businesses are already gone and won't come back.  

Also, might my wife and I be able to snatch up one of those 1m Bay Area condos for cheap because home prices near bay the end up tanking while our house in east Contra Costa county holds steady?

So you're looking at Norfolk VA (three distinct bases), San Diego CA (four bases), Jacksonville FL (three bases), Groton/New London CT (large submarine base), maybe Newport RI (officer training base with many long-term service schools), maybe Pearl Harbor HI (joint base but in Hawaii), maybe Bremerton/Bangor WA (not as many ships or submarines but homeport to one aircraft carrier).Another consideration is what the mission of the base is and who are the personnel most likely to work on that base.

A couple years ago there was a ballot initiative to eliminate a rent control limitation (I think it was called Contra Harris, but something close to that). 

We have one of those on my Aircraft  Owners site.. 

See if there are any aircraft charter places near your area and shop for quotes.

Letting lenders, let alone the government, dictate your plans is contra-entrepreneurial.Learn marketing and how to attract deals.

With respect to your airport project, I would not want a sfd within a 5 mile radius, that is the airport control zone where large aircraft will be ascending or descending at lower altitudes, I'd want to be about 8 to 10 miles out from approach and departure bearings of the major or prominent runways.

I deploy for 3 months at a time to Afghanistan for a major defense contractor flying on surveillance aircraft.