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PANAMA CANAL TREATY
TRANSITION.... 1979-1999
Summary of Treaty
Transition Milestones
Military Property
Transfers to Panama |
MILITARY
PROPERTY TRANSFERS (1979-1999) (continued)
| DATE |
PROPERTY
|
REMARKS |
| 1998/
Jan 8 |
Quarry
Heights (Pacific
side--on one side of Ancon Hill)
 | 134.4 acres with headquarters
building (Montague Hall), smaller Andrews Hall building,
conference room building, underground tunnel (communications),
officers club, post office, tennis court, and 57 family
housing quarters. |
| Site of Headquarters, U.S.
Southern Command and predecessor senior U.S. military commands
from 1917 to Sept.27, 1997.
|
|
Montague
Hall, building 88 (center), at Quarry Heights, previously headquarters of the U.S.
Southern Command. It housed the Command Group of the
Headquarters staff of the U.S. Southern Command until
September 27, 1997, when it was relocated to Miami.
[From
Southern Command Center for Treaty Implementation Pamphlet
on DOD Property Transfers to Panama, dated 1994]
|
USE BY PANAMA:
| The
Panamanian Foreign Ministry moved to Building 88 (Montague
Hall) at Quarry Heights in 1998 from its earlier temporary
site in Building 1 at Fort Amador. (The Foreign Ministry moved to its permanent site
in the completely renovated historic building at Palacio Bolivar in Casco Viejo -- old
colonial section -- of Panama City (in the same area as the
Presidential Palace) shortly after inauguration of the
building November 3, 2003, as part of Panama's centennial
celebrations. The large building, which for years was occupied by the Bolivar
Institute, was the site of the Amphictyonic Congress of the
Americas in 1826 convoked by Simon Bolivar. That building is
one of 46 sites in Panama selected in 1997 by UNESCO as
national patrimony sites.)
|
|
Montague Hall
housed the Foreign
Ministry
from
1998 to November 2003 [US Army Photo by Army South DEH 1999]
|
| The Panamanian government had
planned to make Quarry Heights a "diplomatic city"
in 1998-1999, but only Nicaragua relocated its embassy and
ambassador’s residence to Quarry Heights, at the former
officers Quarters 16 near Montague Hall. |
| Some of the quarters have been
renovated by their new owners. |
For more
details go to Quarry
Heights- New Uses
|
Army
Property
Quarry Heights-
History
Quarry
Heights-
New Uses
|
| 1998/
Jan 8 |
Morgan
Avenue Housing Area --
part
of Quarry Heights (Below
Quarry Heights and behind Balboa Elementary School)
8.47 acres with 29 family housing
units (duplexes)
USE BY PANAMA:
Panamanian housing.
|
Army
Property |
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