Bahrain NEX complex opening this week

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Bahrain NEX complex opening this week


By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, June 11, 2006

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=37834

U.S. Navy photo
A $24-million, two-story combined Navy Exchange, food court and gym facility will open this week at Naval Support Activity Bahrain.

The gym, run by morale, welfare and recreation and featuring a racquetball court, sauna and aerobics and weight rooms, was to open Sunday. The NEX and food court grand opening is slated for Wednesday.

The event will mark both the grand opening and NEX’s 60th anniversary. Patrons will be eligible for $40,000 in prizes, including the chance to win a 2006 Fat Boy Harley-Davidson motorcycle — in Navy blue, said Tom Wetrich, the regional development officer at Bahrain.


The NEX’s selling space of 30,000 square feet more than doubles what currently is available, and the first floor will provide shoppers with a primary source of food and groceries, including fresh fruits and vegetables and a full-service deli, said Dan Cougevan, the NEX general manger. Because threat risks still remain, the building was construction with force protection in mind, Bennett said. For example, there are few windows, so natural lighting is limited.

Looks like we are in for the LONG HAUL