FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE
NO. 07-07
PARTNER ANNOUNCED FOR
RESIDENTAL COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE --March 9, 2007
GMH/Centex Military Communities, LLC,
will be responsible for the
The Army is committed to improving
family housing as a means of sustaining quality of life. Through the RCI program, the Army engages
with private sector firms in public-private partnerships to manage, construct,
renovate, maintain and operate family housing that will ultimately alleviate
housing shortages, rapidly improve the condition of existing housing, and
sustain quality communities over the 50-year life of these projects.
“Providing soldiers and their
families with safe, attractive, affordable housing and modern communities is a
major priority,” said Army officials. “We’re sure GMH/Centex Military
Communities is the right choice for the families at
“West Point’s RCI vision is to
provide our community members and their families with world-class housing and
facilities,” said Col. Brian Crawford,
The RCI program is critical to the
Army’s plan to improve existing housing and sustain quality communities for
Soldiers, said Michael Colacicco, the RCI director
here.
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“The RCI effort should improve, in a
short period of time, the quality of life for all the community members,” Colacicco added. “The overall family housing appearance and
function within
GMH/Centex Military Communities will
work with the Army to develop the CDMP or community
development management plan, which is a blueprint for the actual
residential communities at
Actual project implementation will
begin once the Army, Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Defense
and Congress accepts the CDMP. GMH/Centex
Military Communities should begin renovation work sometime in the late summer
of 2008.
GMH/Centex Military Communities is a
joint venture comprised of GMH Military Housing and Centex Construction. GMH/Centex has significant
Military Housing Privatization Initiative project experience and is the
principal member of the Army’s RCI Teams at
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