NY Army Guard hold ribbon cutting for $16.7 million maintenance shop in Troy on Friday, Sept. 27

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The New York National Guard's new Field Maintenance Shop-17 is a state of the art facility on Glenmore Road in Troy.

LATHAM, NY (09/26/2024) (readMedia)-- The New York Army National Guard will officially open a $16.7 million maintenance facility in Troy on Friday, Sept. 27.

Members of the press are invited to cover the ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour the new state of the art Field Maintenance Shop.

WHO: Major General Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York; Office of General Services Commissioner Jeannette Moye; Marcos Soler, deputy secretary for Public Safety.

WHAT: A formal ribbon cutting for Field Maintenance Shop 17 followed by a tour of the new facility. The new building replaces a 1970s maintenance facility built into the building that currently houses the headquarters of the 42nd Infantry Division. The older facility made it harder to conduct maintenance on the New York Army National Guard's 21st Century vehicles.

WHEN: 10 a.m., Friday, September 27, 2024

WHERE: 139 Glenmore Road, Troy, New York

COVERAGE OPPORTUNITIES:

Reporters can obtain still and video imagery of the ribbon cutting ceremony and walk through the facility. Major General Ray Shields, and other National Guard officials will be available for interviews.

BACKGROUND:

Work on Field Maintenance Shop 17 began in March of 2023 and the project was finished in late August of this year.

The project was budgeted to cost $17 million and the new facility was expected to be ready by May of 2025. But the prime contractors of Bette & Cring, Flex Electric, and Crisifulli Brothers brought the project to competition much sooner for about $300,000 less.

It is expected that the new building will be ready for use in November.

The 18,808 square foot masonry and insulated metal panel building houses three general purpose work-bays. This allows six military vehicles to be serviced inside simultaneously. There are also outdoor concrete aprons which allow additional vehicles to be serviced outside in good weather.

The facility also complies with the latest environmental measures. These include photovoltaic roof panels and ground based solar panels, which will generate more power than the maintenance shop will use, and a stormwater retention system which save rainwater to wash vehicles.

The current field maintenance shop is only 11,000- square feet and was built to handle the quarter-ton jeeps and two and a half ton "deuce and a half" trucks used by the Army in 1971.

The new facility can handle any of the 1,500 vehicles used by the New York Army National Guard ranging from Humvees to massive satellite trucks.