Kaiserslautern facility's opening date still unknown

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The entrance to the 350-room lodging facility section of the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center. Air Force officials are currently doing final inspections on the hotel, which will be one of the first KMCC facilities to open.


Kaiserslautern facility's opening date still unknown
By Jennifer H. Svan and Marcus Klöckner, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, February 15, 2009

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Don’t make shopping plans just yet.

The Defense Department’s 844,000-square-foot mall-hotel complex could welcome its first customers this spring with the goal of being fully operational by early fall, Air Force officials say.

But with the opening date of the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center a moving target ever since construction began in 2003, Air Force officials are cautious about any “open-for-business” projections.

Construction is about 95 percent complete, but the Air Force, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and numerous vendors can’t start moving in until Landesbetrieb Liegenschafts–und Baubetreuung, the German state construction agency overseeing the problem-riddled project, turns over the building, said Col. David Reynolds, chief of U.S. Air Forces in Europe’s German Construction Division.

“Right now they predict mid-April to be done with everything,” Reynolds said of LBB. “That’s still very ambitious. There’s still a fair amount of work to do.”


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