After moving into a new facility several few months ago, U.S. diplomats posted in Haiti officially dedicated their new $75 million U.S. Embassy compound Monday.
Located in the city of Tabarre, just a few minutes from the airport in Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince, the newly constructed complex is among dozens of new embassies that the United States is building around the globe.
The Haiti facility is located on 10 acres and includes the main building, General Services Office (GSO) Annex, a warehouse, Marine security guard quarters, three access control facilities and a utility building. There also is a large interior atrium in the main building, an extensive landscaping and irrigation system and a state-of-the-art climate control and water treatment plant.
Also, with about 100,000 people—or 500 individuals a day—visiting the consulate for visas, staff now have 34 windows, up from 12 in the old building, to help visitors.
At the peak of construction, the compound had as many as 1,200 construction workers on site who helped log 5,580,000 hours of construction.
Source: Miami Herald
Embassy in early 2008 as it was being built.
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