4:02 AM CDT, March 25, 2010

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Cre­ation of a new home for stor­age of mil­lions of mil­i­tary records in sub­ur­ban St. Louis is on track to be com­pleted by next year.

The National Per­son­nel Records Cen­ter in St. Louis is the nation’s largest repos­i­tory for mil­i­tary records.

The cen­ter will move to a new, 500,000-square-foot facil­ity in north St. Louis County.

Bryan McGraw of the National Archives and Records Admin­is­tra­tion told KMOX radio on Wednes­day the new facil­ity will allow bet­ter han­dling of the 1.5 mil­lion requests for infor­ma­tion received each year.

The reces­sion slowed and almost derailed the move to the facil­ity. The project was orig­i­nally announced in Sep­tem­ber 2008, days before the finan­cial collapse.

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Infor­ma­tion from: KMOX-AM, http://www.kmox.com