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NEW USES OF TRANSFERRED FACILITIES - Continued

 

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USE BY PANAMA 

Buildings on or near  Canfield Avenue:
865 

Originally Air Force dispensary; later Criminal Investigation Command (CID) Field Office; last years used as Joint Exercises Training Center.

Located across Canfield Avenue from the former chapel.

865 

Seat of the Supreme Courts of the Americas and Judicial School (Escuela Judicial), under Panama’s Supreme Court, moved into the same building October 2003.

Bldg 865 today; building on the

right is part of recently

constructed shopping center

[Photo by WHO 2002]

(Value - $649,631 -- ARI)

860 - Post Chapel (across Canfield Avenue from Building 865 and recently constructed small shopping center) 860 Korean Unification Church

[Photos by WHO 2005]

(Total value-$302,014 -- ARI)

Qtrs 1 - off Canfield Avenue near tennis courts

Front side of original Quarters 1

Built in early 1940s originally for General Officer residence, Quarters 1 was first used by Armed Forces Radio Station (under the Panama Canal Department) from Sept 1944 until it moved back to Fort Clayton Dec 1948.  [Photo provided to WHO by Cliff Van Doren 2004]

The former General Officer’s residence totally remodeled by its new owner after Albrook was transferred to Panama  [Photo courtesy of ARI from its website; used with permission]

13 - Officers Club  (on Hazelhurst Street)

 

13 - Abou Saad Temple

Abou Saad Temple

[Photo by Allan Hawkins 2006]

(Value - $846,271 -- ARI)

14 - VIP Visitors Guesthouse (on Hazelhurst Street) next to former Albrook Officers Club (now Abou Saad Temple) 14 - Albrook Inn

Small tourist facility with 30 rooms (apartments and studio style -- 20 single and double rooms and 10 junior suites) on Hazelhurst Street next to the former Albrook Officers Club. The studios are located on the bottom floor and the apartments on the upper floor. All rooms are air-conditioned, with hot water, telephones, and cable TV. Other facilities at the Inn include restaurantant, bar, swimming pool with jacuzzi, and laundromat. 

[Photos by Allan Hawkins 2006]

For more information go to the Inn's website at http://www.albrookinn.com/

19 and 21 - on Evans Street 

Air Force Officers Bachelor Officers Quarters

19 and 21  Albrook Park Apartments Complex

For details and photos GO TO

$6 million investment

861 - On Minter Avenue

311, 312 - formerly housing units on Minter Avenue 

314, 316 - formerly housing units on Otte Street 

861 was constructed as a school but used as Air Force Headquarters; in 1990s it housed Special Operations Command-South and Department od Defense Dependents Schools (DODDS Panama Region offices)  

861, 311, 312, 314, 316

Saint Mary's Academy -- expanded elementary and secondary school formerly in Balboa.

The four housing units are used for kindergarten and elementary grades

 

(Total value-$2,706,826.62 buildings and adjacent land--ARI)

313-A & B - on Otte Street

313-A & B - Russian Orthodox Church and Archbishop's residence

 (value $271,895-ARI)

334-A & B - on Otte Street 334-A & B - Catholic chapel and residence 

(value $310,726-ARI)

 

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