Housing privatization town halls set

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  • By Tyler Hemstreet
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MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. --  In an ongoing effort to inform base housing residents about the design and development of the new housing community on McChord set to start Oct. 1, housing privatization officials will host two town hall-style meetings next week. 

The meetings are set for 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the base theater. 

The meetings will serve as an opportunity for Equity Residential officials and base housing residents to get together and discuss various details concerning the what, when and where about the housing privatization design and development plan, said Kimberlee Schreiber, the housing privatization managing director for Equity. 

"It's a chance for residents to come out and meet people and start the transition process," said Cal Lovering, a housing privatization project manager with the 62nd Civil Engineer Squadron. "Equity will now be doing everything for them from here on out." 

The meetings will cover subjects such as tentative timelines for construction, details of the different phases of the project and the various community events and activities Equity plans on hosting once the neighborhoods are established, Ms. Schreiber said. 

"In planning these meetings, we basically got together and said, 'As a base housing resident, what are the topics and questions that are going to be the most important to me?'" she said. 

The meetings will also feature sample pictures of new parks, playgrounds and a new community center residents can look forward to seeing in the new development, Ms. Schreiber said. 

Early details of the housing plan include demolishing between 580 to 600 on-base housing units and building new homes in their place over the next seven years. The construction standards for the new houses call for larger living space above the minimum requirement, an attached two-car garage, doublewide driveways and covered patios, according to McChord's housing privatization Web site, https://62msg. mcchord.af.mil/62CES/Housing_Privatization/default.aspx.