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New Army Reserve Training Center to Be Built in Granite City GRANITE CITY, IL, (SWI-News.com), July 8, 2007 - The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, has awarded a $14.4 million contract to K&S Associates, Inc. of St. Louis to build a new Army Reserve Training Center in Granite City, Illinois, about six miles northeast of St. Louis, to accommodate 600 reservists. The new, 70,000-square-foot Training Center will include an Organizational Maintenance Shop (OMS), Area Maintenance Support Activity Building (AMSA), General Purpose Warehouse (GPW), Unheated Storage (UHS) Building and Potable Water Building (PWB). Completion of the new Training Center, situated at the U.S. Army Charles Melvin Price Support Center near the Mississippi River Chain of Rocks Canal in the Tri-City Regional Port District, is scheduled for summer 2009. Granite City is located in Illinois' Madison County. The project architect for the new Training Center is RSP Architects, Ltd. of Minneapolis, Minnesota, assisted by EVS, Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minnesota (civil); Van Sickle, Allen & Associates, Inc. of Plymouth, Minnesota (structural); Damon Farber Associates, Inc. of Minneapolis (landscape); and Gausman & Moore of St Paul, Minnesota (MEP). Thomas J. Kraska, president of K&S Associates, Inc., said, "Our entire team is very proud to be part of this important construction project which will support the mission of the U.S. Army Reserves." The Corps of Engineers' Louisville District, one of the more diverse districts in the U.S., has both a civil works and military construction mission. Its civilian workforce includes professional engineers, architects, planners, economists, biologists and other specialists and support staff working in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. The military construction mission supports U.S. Army, Air Force and Department of Defense facilities within 306,000 square miles in the five-state area. The civil works boundary encompasses nearly 76,000 square miles of the Lower Ohio River Basin. Archived Stories: BP Selects University of Illinois for Energy Biosciences Institute Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park to Fulfill Eero Saarinen's Dream Scott Air Force Base to Remain Open Restaurants Wineries Hotels Return to Southwest Illinois News Southwest Illinois News & Saint Louis Front Page is owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan Saint Louis area. Text or graphics may not be copied, rewritten or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission. For more information, contact editor@slfp.com All rights reserved world wide © 1996 - 2007 Moore Design Group.

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