Fort Bragg has $3 billion in maintenance backlogs.
That’s according to information shared by leaders at the installation during the “State of Fort Bragg” presentation on May 5.
“We’ve got an endless—roads, roofs, HVACs, you name it—list of projects to get after,” Garrison Commander Col. Chad Mixon said during the event.
That eye-popping number makes more sense considering the sheer scale of the installation.
There’s 1,462 miles of road, and just over 40% needs repairs. The base plans to invest around $20 million annually into the roads alone. In early July, the All American gate will close as some of these projects get underway.
The installation also has 5,600 buildings, requiring around $200 million in roof repairs alone. Of the 117 barracks on post, 12 were closed after mold forced soldiers out of the Smoke Bomb Hill barracks in 2022. Five of those have since been renovated and the remainder will be replaced over the coming decade.
“We’ve had to move portions of our repair renovation money to fund other requirements, mainly operational requirements,” said Lt. Gen. Gregory Anderson, commanding general of the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg. “In the last couple years, we’ve been given some pretty decent money… (but) if this goes on for, say, 20, 25, years, we’re probably hitting about 60 to 70% of what we need to maintain a pristine Ford Bragg.”
Managing how to prioritize that money falls to Jeff Williamson, Fort Bragg’s public works director.
“It could be overwhelming to some, but I thrive here,” he said at the event in May. “I just … said, ‘okay, what’s the worst first?’ and then we go down to the least worst.”
Williamson spoke with CityView after the “State of Fort Bragg” event about his priorities for work on the installation. This includes anything that is failed or failing as well as anything that is a threat to life, health, or safety.
The way the installation budget works, Williamson said, there is no planning ahead to replace systems as they near the end of their natural lifespans. Instead issues are addressed as they occur. That’s been a little easier in recent years as funding has been closer to 80% to 85% of what the installation needs, but it doesn’t eliminate past backlogs—from 70-year-old motor pools to dining facilities, he said.
“While this installation or facilities management sounds like a science, it becomes an art to make sure that we take care of the pressing needs first,” Williamson said. “And you’ll see we really don’t do anything, at least with our sustainment money, that isn’t needed.”
Fort Bragg Explores Rideshare Program for Soldiers
But there still are some new things coming to Fort Bragg.
A new campus-style dining venue will likely be opening in a renovated dining facility this summer, providing more options for soldiers on post. Williamson said the roof and HVAC needed to be fixed first, work that he says is on track to be completed around mid-June. Then, the new contractor can come in and complete the facility.
“It was originally supposed to be open earlier,” he said. “With the lack of appropriations and, you know, the furloughs … we just couldn’t get around to it.”
Also in June, the N.C. Department of Transportation will complete its data collection on a new “micro transit” initiative—effectively a rideshare program for soldiers on post.
Williamson said a final proposal would likely go to installation leaders in the fall, including recommendations for how to integrate the program with Fayetteville’s existing public transportation. The Army has rolled out a similar program at Fort Hood in Texas.
“Their initial ridership was only about 50,000 for the first six months, but after they fully implemented their annual ridership was 400,000 soldiers,” Williamson said. “So we know it’s a good deal.”
Williamson did not have an estimate for the project’s cost.
There’s other work happening on post as well, including on the 6,100 homes managed by Corvias Property Management. In 2025, 400 of those homes were closed as Corvias moved forward with renovations. In October, Corvias tested soil around on-post family housing for lead.
One facility that will be leaving Fort Bragg: the Stryker Golf Course. The course is slated to close in October, according to Mixon, as it continues to lose money.
“You look at the degraded infrastructure at Stryker, that’s going to require big dollars that we’re going to need for other things,” Mixon said at the event in May.
The land will be repurposed, possibly through a public-private partnership.
“We don’t really have a focal point for, you know, community resilience, outdoor community gatherings, those kind of things,” Mixon said. “So the team is working now on some concepts, some ideas on ‘what can we do with Stryker?’”
Nothing has been finalized, but Mixon said the old golf course would not “just grow over in grass.”
