Consolidated Community Center construction on schedule

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  • By Senior Airman Chase Hedrick
  • 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey --  Astute observers may have noticed the walls for the Incirlik AB Consolidated Community Center are now visible above the construction barriers. A sure sign that everything is on schedule according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project engineer here.

This construction project on schedule, and we love that, said Orken Dincer, USACE engineer. "Construction-wise we're extremely happy with the quality we're getting. We've been very happy with the contractor. They're very professional."

The Consolidated Community Center is scheduled to open in the fall of 2014 and will include a theater, library, game and activities room, conference room, multipurpose room with a stage and reading and computer rooms. Team Incirlik is getting a great building from the project, said Dincer.

Other base agencies agree.

"We're excited about a number of things," said Trent Reynolds, 39th Force Support Squadron librarian. "We're going to have more room for books since we're increasing in size by a few thousand square feet. That'll add a little more shelving space for us. Not to mention, it will be a more modern building so some of the challenges regarding rainy days and leaks will hopefully cease to exist."

Reynolds added he's hoping to bring the Team Incirlik community into the move when the project is complete.

"As it gets closer and closer to the move we'll probably put out a call for volunteers who maybe want to help since we'll have boxes of books to move over there," he said.

Librarians and library patrons aren't the only ones who should be looking forward to the new complex. Anyone who enjoys the facilities being consolidated should be excited, said Dincer.

"I think the best thing for the community will be the theater. After the old theater we had, this is going to be wonderful," he said. "The center does consolidate a lot of functions that are distributed about the base into one spot, and it's going to be lovely."