LAWTON, Okla. — Nearly $650,000 of public money was lost after the Army stopped construction of a Fort Sill warehouse that an Indian tribe said was being built on sacred ground, according to a newspaper report.
The Oklahoman reported Sunday that the federal government paid more than $421,000 to a Florida construction company that started work on the Training Support Center warehouse at Fort Sill. The contract was terminated last year.
The government also paid more than $227,000 to revise the design and change the warehouse’s location, according to court records.
The post’s garrison commander changed the warehouse location last year after a federal judge blocked construction on land south of historic Medicine Bluffs. The judge acted after the Comanche Nation complained the warehouse was being built on sacred land.
