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	All troop buildings and barracks (including the ten buildings of the U.S. Army School of the Americas) were transferred.
	Housing areas, elementary school, and other community support facilities continued under U.S. control as a Military Area of Coordination until 1995 when the rest of Fort Gulick was transferred to Panama.

Units at Fort Gulick:

	U.S. Army School of the Americas, at Fort Gulick since 1949, moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, Sept. 1984, after failure of negotiations to keep the School of the Americas in Panama under a new arrangement.
	3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces (Airborne) and 549th Military Police Company (both moved to Fort Davis).
	549th Military Police Company

Part of Fort Gulick, including the U.S. Army School of the Americas Building 400 in foreground and other buildings and barracks, transferred to Panama October 1, 1984. [U.S. Army Photo, 1978]

NEW USE BY PANAMA:

	The Panama Defense Forces stationed its 8th Rifle/Military Police Company (one of two military police companies created in 1979) in the transferred portion of Fort Gulick, which Panama renamed Fuerte Espinar. That company worked with the U.S. Military Police in joint patrols as mandated by the Panama Canal Treaty beginning October 1, 1979, when the Panama Canal Treaties entered into force.
	The Panama Defense Forces consolidated several of its training centers into Building 400 and the other buildings that had been part of the Army School of the America. Those buildings had been vacant since December 20, 1999 until 1999 (following Panamanian military later abolished).
	Building 400 and the nearby former VIP Guest Quarters were converted into Hotel Meliá Panama Canal by the Spanish Meliá hotel chain in 1999-2001.

Building 400 and other close-by buildings were converted into five-star Hotel Meliá Panama Canal by the Spanish Meliá hotel chain in 1999-2001. [Photo courtesy of ARI - Panama's Interoceanic Region Authority, from its website]

Army Property

Fort Gulick- History

Gulick/ Espinar- New Uses

1984/ Oct 1

FRANCE FIELD-Family Housing (Atlantic side)

67 Family housing units.

USE BY PANAMA:

Panamanian family housing.

Army Property

1990

Coco Solo North and South (Atlantic side)

	90 units of family housing
	Five buildings, including a troop barrack
	Coco Solo elementary school

USE BY PANAMA:

	The Coco Solo Junior-Senior High School is now part of the Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) container port handling operation established in the mid-1990s at Coco Solo.
	Evergreen Container Port Terminal (Taiwanese).
	Panamanian family housing.

Army Property

1991/ July

Camp Chagre area (Pacific Side near Madden Dam)

Formerly used as Boy Scout camping grounds.

Army Property

1991/ Oct

Building 6005 in Summit (Pacific Side)

USE BY PANAMA:

Licensed to Government of Panama for training academy for the newly formed Panama Technical Judicial Police (PTJ); later formally transferred to Panama.

Navy Property

1991/ Dec 1

GATUN TANK FARM (288-acre fuel storage tanks and distribution complex on the Atlantic side)

	26 underground tanks (including 15 steel tanks with total capacity of 405,000 barrels) and seven pump stations, constructed in 1942-43.
	Navy-owned facilities at Pier 16 at Port of Cristobal, manifolds and piping connecting the tank farm with nearby Mount Hope and Pier 16, and Transisthmian pipeline (from Gatun Tank Farm to Gamboa).

Navy Property

1992/ Nov & Dec

CURUNDU HEIGHTS Bachelor Officers Quarters (Pacific side).

13 buildings containing 92 one-bedroom apartments.

USE BY PANAMA:

Panamanian government consolidated several offices of some ministries (INRENARE - Institute of Renewable National Resources and MIDA - Ministry of Agricultural Development) and other governmental entities previously spread out in different parts of Panama City into these buildings after making modifications.

Army Property

1993

Chiva Chiva training area (Located on the Pacific side, near Fort Clayton).

All the training area, near Fort Clayton, except for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) antenna farm, was transferred. Area of the antenna farm was later transferred to Panama.

Army Property

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