Barracks-upgrade project opens renovated building to Navy students
Dec 18, 2009
By Tonya K. Townsell, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. — Community leaders celebrated the continuing $17.5 million barracks-upgrade project at the Presidio of Monterey with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for building 646 here Dec. 15.
Building 646, the second of three barracks-upgrade projects, will house Navy students attending the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
The $17.5 million barracks-upgrade project underway is to renovate the barracks buildings to a modified one-plus-one configuration.
Additionally, the project will repair various failed or failing building components and bring the three barracks up to a modified one-plus-one configuration and reconfigure 44 existing rooms in each building to provide suites of two semi-private sleeping rooms and one private sleeping room.
Each suite will have its own built-in closets. Each one-plus-one room will host one shared bathroom and kitchenette-type area. And, the one-person room layout will have its own bathroom and kitchenette.
The project will also replace wall finishes, ceilings and flooring, install new lighting, upgrade the HVAC and electrical systems, replace the plumbing system and install new fire alarm and protection systems.
The renovation of building 646 began in December 2008. The final cost came to just over $6 million, said Presidio of Monterey Garrison Commander Col. Darcy A. Brewer, adding that building 645’s renovation, which was completed in December 2008, came in at $5.7 million.
The next building slated for renovation is building 648.
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