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PANAMA CANAL TREATY
TRANSITION.... 1979-1999
Summary of Treaty
Transition Milestones
Military Property
Transfers to Panama
Treaty Impact on
Military |
MILITARY
PROPERTY TRANSFERS (1979-1999) (continued)
| DATE |
PROPERTY
|
REMARKS |
| 1999/
July 15 |
Panama Canal College (Pacific side at La Boca near the Bridge of the
Americas)
 | Established in 1933 by the
governor of the Panama Canal Zone as the Canal Zone Junior
College; originally located adjacent to Balboa High School.
Later moved to La Boca. Was transferred to the Department of
Defense Dependents School System (as DoDDS only junior college
worldwide) on Oct. 1, 1979, with the abolishment of the Canal Zone
Government.
| Last graduating class (55
graduates) held May 20, 1999.
| More than 5,000 students
graduated from the Panama Canal College in its 66 years
existence. |
| |
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Panama
Canal College-Now Florida State University-Panama Canal
Branch at La Boca. Bridge of the Americas in
background. [U.S. Army photo by DEH-U.S. Army South]
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USE BY PANAMA:
| In June 1999, management of
the facility transferred to the new Ciudad del Saber (City of
Knowledge) established at Fort Clayton).
| In August 1999, opened as
Florida State University-Panama Canal Branch offering a
stateside education with programs of study leading to bachelor
and associate degrees for Panamanians and other students. |
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DoDDS/Army
Property
DoDDS
Schools-
History
|
| 1999/
July 30 |
Cocoli housing area (Pacific side on Bruja Road past Rodman Naval Station and
HOROKO golf course) (Army)
| 146 acres with 162 units of
substandard family housing and community center. Used by the
Army for Bachelor enlisted and bachelor officers quarters. |
| Cocoli was built to
accommodate an expected surge of personnel associated with the
construction of a Third Locks Project at Miraflores Locks in
late 1939 to expand Canal facilities. The project was
abandoned in 1942 and the area was transferred from the Panama
Canal Company to the Navy in 1951 and later to the Army in
1965. |
Cocoli
Housing Area [U.S. Army photo from American
Legacy in Panama pamphlet]
|
USE BY PANAMA:
| Some Panamanian nongovernmental
organizations have received facilities in Cocoli. |
|
Army
Property
Cocoli-History
|
| 1999/
July 30 |
Remainder of HOROKO golf
course (Pacific side near Marine
Barracks)
USE BY PANAMA:
| Tucan Country Club & Resort is developing a 180-acre private gated golf
community (with country club, residences, and hotel) and improving
and redesigning the 18-hole championship golf course to a par
72 PGA course. Construction of the 424 residences (consisting of Villa’s, Townhouses and Terrace
Condo’s) is underway (began in March 2005) with the first units
expected to be completed around September 2005. |
| The
developers will build an initial 60- to 70-room hotel within the
Club complex in the second year of development. |
|
Army
Property |
| 1999/
July 30 |
Corozal Commissary (Pacific
side)
| Main grocery store for the
U.S. military community on the East Bank. Smaller
commissaries were located at Howard Air Force Base (West Bank)
and Fort Gulick/Espinar (on the Atlantic side). |
USE BY PANAMA:
| The commissary store is now a
bonded corporation. |
| The adjacent dry food
warehouse has been remodeled as the new passenger
terminal for the renovated
Panama Railroad. |
|
Former
commissary warehouse now Panama Railroad passenger
terminal. [Photo by Galen R Frysinger - www.galenfrysinger.com;
used with his
permission]
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Army
Property |
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