New exchange to open at Kadena

[unhappycamper]

New exchange to open at Kadena
By Cindy Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, December 16, 2007

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Construction of a new exchange on Kadena Air Base is set to start now that a Shinto priest purified the site Friday.

The traditional Shinto ceremony blessed the site and prayed for the safety of construction workers and prosperity for the facility and its inhabitants.

Construction of the 324,628-square-foot facility, to be located next to the commissary, is scheduled to start in January.

The exchange should be completed in May 2009 and open later that summer, said Art Arao, the project coordinator with 18th Civil Engineering Group.

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It will cost about $80 million to complete and once opened will be the second-largest Army and Air Force Exchange Services shopping mall, said Dan Tompkins, the senior vice president for the AAFES Pacific region. The largest AAFES shopping mall is at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51011



uhc comment: Empire is expensive.

[razors edge]

1. If the troops are

anything like me when I was there, they wont be able to afford to shop in it to begin with.

I bet the Haliburton folks can afford it.