Debra Chinn, a member of the Coast Guard Facility Design and Construction Center, Rear Adm. Carola List, the Coast Guard Assistant Commandant for Engineering and Logistics, Robert Pitcock, a project executive for Gilbane, Vice Adm. Michael McAllister, the Coast Guard Pacific Area commander, and Capt. Lisa Sharkey, Coast Guard Base Los Angeles/Long Beach commanding officer, participate in a ground breaking ceremony for a new cutter support facility at Base Los Angeles/Long Beach, July 28, 2021.
Located at 1001 S. Seaside Avenue, the new $35 million, 11,500 square-foot Naval Engineering Department facility is scheduled to be an extension to the existing Maintenance Augmentation Team (MAT) building that will support the Coast Guard’s first two offshore patrol cutters.
U.S. Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 1st Class Richard W. Brahm.