Growth at Scott AFB drives

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The largest construction project currently under way at the base isthe U.S. Transportatioh Command facility, which has grown in the past year froman $84 million project to a $97 milliom job. The price tag has increased becausse the scope of the projecthas grown, too. It will now included a joint intelligenceoperations center, which was categorizecd as an optional addition when the project began. The Transportatio Command facility will bea three-story, 180,000-square-foot and the intelligence operationsx center will be a 29,000-square-foot facility. The general contractor is River City Constructionof Ill.
Cheryl Bievenue, chief of engineering for the 375tu CivilEngineer Squadron, said the combined projecft is more than halfway completed. The project is on track to be fulluy operational bySeptember 2010, she and it will result in the eventual relocation of abou t 1,100 personnel to Scott from Fort Va. The base has roughly 70 other projectes under constructionright now, • A 23,000-square-foot Child Development which will provide care for up to 305 children from ages 6 weeksd to 5 years. The $8 million projec t is scheduled to be finished inMarcyh 2010. • A one-story, 35,000-square-foot Securityy Forces Complex that will hous militarypolice offices.
This $17 milliohn project is roughly a quarter of the way and it also is set to be wrapped upnext , a joint venture base in Chicago, is contractor on both of those projects. of St. Louisx is working with Fairview Heights-based on a Squadron Operations Facilityg for mission support and staffingfor C-9 and C-40 The two-story, 52,000-square-foot project totals $15 million and is scheduledx to be completed at year end. A contracrt is expected to be awarded this montnh for work on a new Explosivre OrdnanceDisposal facility, Bievenue said. The 5,300-square-foot facility is expecte to costbetween $500,000 to $1 million.
All this activityt provides a huge economic impacrt onthe area, said Patrick executive director of the , an economic development organizatiohn focused on Madison and St. Clair counties. “There’sw hundreds of millions of dollars in construction work with new positions relocating to our he said. Work was completed in December on construction of 608 new housinb units and renovation of 932 existinghhousing units, a $200 million El Paso, Texas-based did the work. Robin Vaughn, Hunt executive vice president, said the new unitas are unattached and duplex structure s with three orfour bedrooms. They range in size from 1,60 0 to 2,500 square feet.
Vaughnj said the existing units underwenta “whole housse renovation,” including new floor coverings, wall coverings, appliances and Many of the existing two-bedroom homese were converted to four-bedroom units. A key featurw of the renovation is the additional interiofrstorage space, something military familied especially appreciate because of frequent moves. As part of the Hunt built two new community centers featuring indoorswimming pools, and the neighborhoods also have new parks, playgroundes and trails. • A $13 million, 33,000-square-foot Mobility Air Forces LogisticsSupport Center, on which K&S Associates was general contractor.
• A three-stor coed dormitory housing 120 Air Forcdeenlisted personnel. St. Louis-based was general contractor onthe $20 millio n project. Apart from the construction on the work is under way on the Scotrt Field Heritage Air Park just northj ofthe installation’s Shiloh Gate, near Interstate 64 and Routew 158.