Oft-delayed KMCC set to open early 2009

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Oft-delayed KMCC set to open early 2009
By Mark Abramson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, November 3, 2008

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — After more than two years of delays, skyrocketing costs and myriad problems, the opening date of the military’s shopping Mecca — the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center — appears to be in sight.

"The KMCC project should be finished around February 2009," said Markus Ramp, a spokesman for the German contracting company Landesbetrieb Liegenschafts-und Baubetreuung. LBB declined to give a specific opening date in February.

The 844,000-square-foot center will include a 350-room hotel, stadium seating movie theaters, a food court and exchange.

The total price tag for the facility at Ramstein Air Base remains unclear since the design costs, changes in the dollar compared to the euro, furniture and equipment costs and other expenses aren’t included in the Air Force’s figures, a Government Accountability Office report stated. The GAO said it believes the total cost will exceed $200 million.

The KMCC budget was $120 million, according to officials with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.


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