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This blog is dedicated to issues and topics that affect northern Beaufort County, including Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, and Naval Hospital Beaufort, as well as the area's veterans service organizations.
Patrick Donohue is the Gazette’s Police, Fire, and Military reporter. Donohue is a native of Terre Haute, Ind. and a graduate of the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism at Indiana University. He was previously a general assignment reporter at The Destin Log in northwest Florida.
Louisiana contractor receives final option on Parris Island barracks
The Department of the Navy awarded the final $18.8 million piece of a $78.4 million contract to a Louisiana construction company this week to build a fourth barracks facility at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island.
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast in Jacksonville, Fla., awarded Walton Construction Co. of Harahan, La., the third and final option of the $78.4 million contract to design and build barracks and headquarters for the depot’s 3rd Recruit Battalion. The 3rd Battalion is housed in some of the depot's older facilities, most of which were built in the 1960s.
Construction on the fourth barracks will begin this month and is expected to be done in April 2011, according to a news release from Walton Construction.
In December, Walton was awarded the initial $25.6 million contract, which included an option for two additional barracks, bringing the total contract to more than $78 million.
The first two facilities are scheduled to be completed by October 2010, according to Walton.
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