Photo Story: Contractors demolish old Installation Legal Office building at Fort McCoy

The area where an excavator took down a building in the 1600 block of the cantonment area is shown Dec. 12, 14, and 19, 2023, at Fort McCoy, Wis.

The work was to make way for more construction in the future for two more brigade headquarters buildings that will be constructed, said Master Planner Brian Harrie with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works.

That construction will be managed by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The work also aligns with the Fort McCoy Master Plan for construction to improve the installation’s infrastructure, and more.

Demolition of buildings in the 1600 block originally began in 2019 and has since led to the construction of two large four-story barracks buildings, and a third that is currently under construction.

All of the work is part of the Fort McCoy master plan that looks at continuously upgrading the installation’s infrastructure to be prepared for the future, Harrie said.

Overall, nine new buildings are planned for the entire 1600 block, Harrie said. The plan is to build four barracks buildings, the three 20,000-square-foot brigade headquarters buildings, and two 160-room officer quarters.

Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.”

Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.

The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”

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