$10M Airmen's center plans under way Published Nov. 28, 2007 By Airman Elliott Sprehe 27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. -- Change is afoot here as plans for a new dining facility (DFAC)/Airman's Center have been drawn up with groundbreaking for the 18-month project planned for early next year. A comprehensive interior design (CID) meeting is scheduled for Dec. 4 at 8 a.m. in the first-floor conference room of the 27th Special Operations Wing headquarters (Bldg. 1). All Cannon Airmen are invited to the meeting, which gives Airmen a chance to discuss what they would like in their new DFAC/Airman's center slated to be completed in the summer of 2009. The layout of the building is already set, so this meeting's main focus is to decide on what the interior will look like, the furniture they would have and other interior design features, said Lt. Col. Mark Brown, 27th Special Operations Mission Support Group deputy commander. The new facility will be located on, literally, Arcadia Avenue, between what is now the post office and the Pecos Trail DFAC. Arcadia Avenue will no longer be a through road after construction begins, said Colonel Brown. The $10 million building will replace both the Pecos Trail and the current Airman's center, which houses the post office, honor guard and, formerly, the community center. Both buildings will be demolished, though Pecos Trail will be open for the duration of construction on the new facility. The building housing the post office will be demolished in February, said Colonel Brown, and the post office will be moved to Building 310, located near outdoor recreation. "Pecos was built in 1958. It's right at its projected life. It was supposed to last 50 years, so 2008 is when it was supposed to be replaced," said Colonel Brown. The new construction project is one of many currently in the works over the next 10 years, to include redesigning the interior of the End Zone and building a two-story DFAC/fitness center off Perimeter Road.