A $14.4 million Food, Beverage and Entertainment Center project will relocate Challenger Bingo to a nearly 11,000-square-foot building on Goss Road and bring a new food service option to the north end of the installation.
The center, which will sit to the north of the Commissary, is expected to be completed in the summer of 2025.
The project is an effort “to provide something back to the community. That’s really what this is all about,” Garrison Commander Col. Brian Cozine said Feb. 21 at a groundbreaking ceremony for the project. “This is a great opportunity for us to do this and I think it’s a great place to put it.”
Cozine was joined by representatives from Team Redstone, Installation Management Command Sustainment, and Centennial, the contractor for the project.
He noted that the Food, Beverage and Entertainment Center is Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation’s first major nonappropriated fund construction project on Redstone since Redstone Lanes in 2005.
Challenger Bingo generates more than $1 million in annual profits and those funds are reinvested into the Redstone community and to other IMCOM Sustainment installations. Challenger Bingo is now located in building 1500 on Weeden Mountain Drive and is open Tuesday through Saturday.
The four-person banquet-style-arranged tables in the center’s Bingo Hall will seat 328 patrons, while the existing hall can seat 225 people at the most, Ed Nunn Jr.,
chief of the business operations division at Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation, said.
The building will feature a kitchen, snack bar and office and storage space, he said. Renderings show an exterior drop-off lane with a canopy. Nunn said there will be a Challenger Bingo logo on the outside of the building.
Cozine said the project is “about seven years in the making.”
The initial project submission was in 2016, and the design for the project began in 2021 and was completed in summer of 2022, according to Nunn.
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