New Tyndall housing a cost-efficient upgrade

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New Tyndall housing a cost-efficient upgrade
By Jonas Hogg - Panama City News Herald via AP
Posted : Sunday Dec 21, 2008 13:46:10 EST

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Already sliding past their 50th birthday, the earliest displays of family housing still are visible at Tyndall Air Force Base. The plain, squat, brick structures, built during the ’50s, sit like bunkers and look tailored for Spartan, commie-hatin’ cold warriors.

But past the unadorned structures a field of organized chaos emerges. Machinery and laborers haul, hoist and hammer as buildings in various stages of completion rise from the mud of a construction zone. A bit further down the first shoots of grass battle their way up through newly seeded lawns.

All new construction, decked out with the latest energy-efficient amenities, a community police station, accessible boat ramps, cozied up next to an 18-hole golf course and all radiating around a new community center with a swimming pool and Internet access.

One thing’s certain, this ain’t your grandfather’s military family housing.

The new housing units, 306 in total, make the family residences on Tyndall look practically indistinguishable from their civilian counterparts.


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