European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 16, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 Over Here spec. Schwann Frazier stands with his 5-year-old son Jonathan in front of their town House in the new Community Heinz built at Vilsick West Germany. Whole new town for 10,000 going up of Vilseck by Effie Batman Nornberg Bureau Vilseck West Germany Wall Bogdanow says he s going to take his first leave in two years. For the past four years he s had the Job of building town for 10,000 people. This summer he s building about $5 million Worth of it each month. Now that he s about two thirds done he says he can use a break. The town is the Vilseck military Community Home of the 7th army combined arms training Center near the Village of Vilseck where the vils Stream bends its Way through the Northern bavarian Hills. Formerly a somewhat isolated Post on the Southern Edge of the tank trails and targets of the Grafin Wuhr training area it s the site Ofa $300 million expansion project. With the help of dozens of engineers and planners at Vilseck and hundreds throughout Europe Bogdanow As the chief Engineer of the project is one of the key people overseeing construction of Barracks family housing and dental clinics along with military vehicle Wash Racks maintenance shops and Headquarters buildings. More specifically the project Means 882 new family units mostly town houses with 882 american dishwashers. And if an army Post can be judged by its Bowling Alley the new one will have 24 lanes the construction is taking place because the Force modernization program for the . Army in Europe is relocating five battalions to Vilseck to make room at other locations for Apache attack helicopter battalions. What was a Small Post of 700 people mostly officers and cos in 1982 is now Home to 3,000 military and family members. Authorities said an additional 7,000 arc coming by 1992 when most of the major construction should be completed. Soldiers from the 1st army div s 1st brigade Are among those who will make Vilseck their new Home some Are already Here. Vilseck officials say the 1st in 6th inf regt. Will probably arrive next Spring. The 6th in 1st Field arty regt should be in Vilseck in the fall of 1991. Because of the wave of new Servic members Bogdanow s staff must Complete 60 construction projects in Only a few years and in an area of less than three Square Miles some of which was swamp. What makes it such an incredible feat Bogdanow s4s he Batten Walt Bohdanow chief Engineer on the Vilseck project Sundys a construction site for a vehicle Wash rack. Said is that the work is being done while people Are living in the midst of it. As they have done for More than four years residents still contend with trenches unexpected Power outages mazes within mazes of detours and a cacophony of bulldozers and trucks. Everyday it s a different Way into work said Bogdanow who acknowledged that even he often takes a wrong turn or two As roads Are closed off around construction Sites. Among those already stationed Here is spec. Schwann Frazier. A personnel clerk who lives in the housing area that looks surprisingly like an american suburb except that there s no City nearby. His town House located near natural Ponds and Bike paths is just Down the Street from the officers Homes. Frazier said the Community has a lot of benefits for his wife Angela and their 5-year-old son Jonathan. I Don t have to drive a car and i can sleep later he said. My family can get to things easily and my son rides his Bike every  however turning the swamp area into Fra Ier s Little Patch of Suburbia has meant a lot of planning coordination and headaches said Bogdanow and engineering authorities. Sitting at his desk Bogdanow said that when his project office phone rings he wonders what next he described himself As a coordinator and spends a third of his Lime on the phone putting out fires sometimes 10 in a  the fires occasionally turn into major blazes that create delays. Construction workers digging a foundation discovered three buried German tanks from world War ii. For example. And then there were the 60 Harbor swallows that mistook an excavation Sile for a Cliff and decided to Homestead. They were on the German protected list so we risked a significant Fine if we disturbed them Bogdanow explained. So we re holding up construction on an ammunition storage area at least two months until they finish  he said he is constantly juggling and shifting projects timetables and a tangle of funding in Hopes of getting things done on time. Added complications have been West German authorities environmental concerns a lot of Trees had to be felled to make room for new building and complaints from harried residents. It was worse a few years ago. He said when people in the Community screamed that they could t Lake All the noise and inconvenience any longer. Finally a Community Liaison officer was appointed to do such things As inform residents about closed roads in the area and to express their concerns to the builders. It s much easier now that Quality of life improvements Are in Bogdanow said. He cited the new commissary and Post Exchange Complex where three fourths of the 261 parking spaces Are empty most Aysas Well As the new High school elementary school and child development Center. That boosted morale a lot he said. Bogdanow said he values the natural Beauty of this Community in the Obj Pfalz Hillside and thinks people will like working and living Here. It will retain that Rural atmosphere but have All the facilities Ofa Large Community he said. I can t think of a better combination Bogdanow said which is reason enough for him to take a Long awaited vacation