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Cities look forward to armory closures

 
By Bryan Dean | Published: November 18, 2007    Comment on this article Leave a comment

The Wewoka Oklahoma National Guard Armory is one of 59 across the state that will soon close, and city leaders couldn't be more excited.

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The following Oklahoma National Guard Armories are scheduled to close:

In Oklahoma City:

•2205 N Central

•2207 N Central

•NE 23: field maintenance support

•2222 SW 44

Statewide:

•Allen

•Alva

•Anadarko

•Atoka

•Bartlesville

•Blackwell

•Bristow

•Broken Arrow

•Cherokee

•Chickasha: old armory

•Cushing

•Duncan

•Edmond: field maintenance support

•El Reno

•Enid: main armory and field maintenance support

•Eufala

•Frederick

•Guthrie

•Hartshorne

•Haskell

•Healdton

•Henryetta

•Hominy

•Kingfisher

•Konawa

•Lawton

•Madill

•Mangum

•Marlow

•McAlester

•Minco

•Muskogee

•Norman: Indian Hills

•Okemah

•Okmulgee: main armory and field maintenance support

•Pauls Valley

•Pawhuska

•Pawnee

•Perry

•Ponca City

•Pryor

•Sapulpa

•Stillwell

•Sulphur

•Tahlequah

•Tishomingo

•Tonkawa

•Wagoner

•Walters

•Watonga

•Wewoka

•Woodward

•Vinita

Source: Oklahoma National Guard

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The Guard plans to close old armories as it shifts training to seven regional training centers to be built across the state by 2011. The state is offering the old buildings to local governments already planning ways to put them to good use.

Wewoka is the first city to take over one of the armories. City Clerk Karen Johnson said the city will use the building to boost its economy. City leaders have agreed to make the armory available to a local company that wants to expand and create at least 30 jobs.

"I think all cities appreciate any kind of a building they can get, especially small towns who do not have resources to purchase or buy a building of that size,” Johnson said. "It's a very good thing for Wewoka.”

New centers opening
Military leaders announced the plan to close old armories and build the new training centers in 2005. Centers in McAlester and Enid are scheduled to open in 2009. Norman, Oklahoma City and Lawton will get their new training centers in 2010, and the final two centers will open in Muskogee and Broken Arrow in 2011.

The cheapest of the training centers will cost $15 million and the most expensive is estimated to cost $66 million.

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