Wiesbaden community sees building boom

[unhappycamper]

The Army intends to build a new housing area adjacent to the Wiesbaden Army Airfield. In the meantime, existing housing areas, such as the one at Aukamm shown here, have been undergoing major renovation work for several years.


Wiesbaden community sees building boom
By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, March 2, 2008

WIESBADEN, Germany — The dust is flying along the Rhine River, and it’s not about to settle any time soon. In fact, it’s only going to intensify.

Over the next several years, the Wiesbaden military community, which includes 16 sites in four towns, is slated to undergo a massive building boom that will involve dozens of projects and cost more than $500 million, according to Army officials.

“We got a lot of work going on,” said Michael Dennis, a construction supervisor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Aside from a long-standing program to upgrade existing housing areas, all the work is rooted in the Defense Department’s decision to make Wiesbaden the future headquarters for the 7th Army. That entity will supplant U.S. Army Europe by Sept. 30, 2009, as the principal land component for the U.S. European Command, though it won’t move from Heidelberg to Wiesbaden until at least 2012.

The shift will be “a major focus of ours for the next couple of years,” said Brig. Gen. David G. Perkins, USAREUR’s operations officer.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52995



uhc comment: The article does not mention if the work is being done by the Army or is privatized.

[displacedtexan]

1. My father-in-law was the base commander there

Once upon a time.

I love the area around the Kurhaus.

Lovely!