Camp Humphreys' new land ready to be developed

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An aerial photograph taken Tuesday shows Camp Humphreys in South Korea and part of the new land onto which the post will expand by 2012. The first construction on the Parcel 1 of the new lands, seen in foreground, is to start in early June. In the background are new eight-story barracks and a dining hall in the post’s MP Hill area.


Camp Humphreys' new land ready to be developed
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, April 26, 2008

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — The long-awaited work on the first buildings set for construction on Camp Humphreys’ new lands will kick off in June.

Six eight-story barracks are the first of many structures that will go up under plans to transform Camp Humphreys by 2012 into the U.S. military’s flagship installation in South Korea.

The post is to triple in size by expanding onto a large tract set aside for the project under a South Korea-U.S. agreement.

Fred Davis, Army Relocation Program manager at Camp Humphreys with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Far East District, said the first piles should go into the ground by early June for construction of four barracks. The Hanwha Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. of Seoul will build those.

Sometime in mid- to late July, work should start on two additional barracks, to be built by Shinsung Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. of Seoul.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54325



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