DORAL, FL – U.S. Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), welcomed distinguished company from Washington, D.C., the Division of Protection, and leaders from Miami-Dade County to the groundbreaking ceremony for the longer term website of the brand new navy housing complicated supporting the command.
In an effort to improve SOUTHCOM’s navy readiness and repair member high quality of life, this complicated – situated straight in entrance of the command – will handle long-standing challenges with housing key and important service members close to the set up and, equally vital, handle most of the vital monetary challenges that our service members face when residing in a high-cost metropolitan group.
“The impacts of elevated price of residing and housing prices was a driving issue to develop inexpensive, everlasting housing to care for our primary precedence – our navy service members and their households,” stated Richardson. “We sit up for the sounds of building deliberate for the summer time of this 12 months — and we couldn’t ask for a greater location.”
Preliminary building is scheduled to start later this 12 months with work on the foundational infrastructure wanted to construct a housing group on land the place there beforehand wasn’t one. So basic items like roads and utilities will must be arrange first. The navy housing venture will likely be accomplished in 4 phases with the primary section slated to start in early 2025. When accomplished in late 2027, the complicated will embrace 60 flats items for as much as 120 unaccompanied navy servicemembers; 48 townhouses; 24 duplexes and 7 single household houses.
“That is actually a win-win for everybody. Doral and the South Florida group at massive will profit from the 1,200 SOUTHCOM personnel contributing to the native financial system,” stated Richardson.
