By Mariah Blake
The Christian Science Monitor

Hamburg, Germany - Nearly two years after it was supposed to be completed, the Pentagon’s largest single’site construction project is [tag]languishing unfinished, due to shoddy workmanship, poor planning, flawed design, spiraling costs, and an ongoing fraud investigation.
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The problems are so severe that neither the US Air Force - overseeing the project - nor the construction company it has partnered with can predict the final budget or completion date, according to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).

“The project is in serious trouble, and there are no good solutions,” says Gregory Kutz, the GAO’s managing director of special investigations. “Sorting it out could take years, if it can be sorted out at all.”

The problem is the unfinished Kaiserslautern community center, that’s designed to house 844,000 square feet of shops and lodging. It is part of a $2 billion makeover of Kaiserslautern Military Community, the US military’s largest overseas base and a key player in its global troop realignment plan.

As other bases across Europe close, southwest Germany’s “K-town” is picking up pieces of their missions and becoming a central gateway for American troops abroad and a logistical hub for Middle East operations.

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