By Roland Murphy | AZBEX
The U.S. General Services Administration has announced commercial inspections at the U.S.-Mexico border at Douglas will relocate from the existing Raul H. Castro Land Port of Entry to a new facility 4.5 miles away once it is built.
News reports say the Castro POE only has five inspection bays and cannot meet the needs of Customs and Border Protection. GSA will work to construct the new POE while simultaneously modernizing and renovating Castro.
The decision comes after a nearly two-year environmental review of the new location.
The new port will be funded under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and will cost between $170M and $220M, according to reports. When completed, it will serve as the new permanent home for commercial inspections.
According to the description in the DATABEX project database, the project consists of: “A new commercial port which includes construction of a Main Building, Commercial Primary Inspection Lanes, Commercial Inspection Building and Loading Docks, Vehicle Exit Booth, Kennel Building, Vault, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Facility, and Firearms Simulation Building, totaling approximately 180,000 gross square footage.”
