Construction on the $14.4 million Food, Beverage and Entertainment Center continues at the site north of the Commissary, and the project is now expected to be completed this fall.
The nearly 11,000-square-foot building will house Challenger Bingo and bring a new food service option to the north end of the installation.
“Once the building is turned over to MWR, it will be at least a month before the operation will be ready for a grand opening,” said Gary Haught, chief of the Business Operations Division in the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation.
According to Haught, workers are preparing to put on the roof and continue work to dry-in the building, which includes glass, brick, doors and roofing. “After the building is dried in, they will begin turning on the air and trying to condition the building to follow up with interior finishes.”
At a groundbreaking ceremony for the project last year, former Garrison Commander Col. Brian Cozine said that the center is MWR’s first major nonappropriated fund construction project on Redstone since Redstone Lanes in 2005.
Challenger Bingo is now located in building 1500 on Weeden Mountain Drive.
The four-person tables that are arranged banquet-style in the Bingo Hall will seat 328 patrons, while the existing hall can seat 225 people at the most, Ed Nunn, MWR director, said last year. The building will have a kitchen, snack bar and office and storage space, and renderings show an exterior drop-off lane with a canopy.
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