The military built its largest overseas facility as a taxpayer-funded mall

Evidence

Standing directly across from the passenger terminal that has ferried troops to and from the war zones is what some call the “Mall of America of the East.” When it opened in 2009, the 844,000-square-foot Kaiserslautern Military Community Center was the largest single facility built by the military overseas, at a cost of more than $200 million. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 110

Categorization

• CANDY: The juxtaposition of a wartime logistics hub and a giant shopping mall built right beside it is a striking, conversational detail.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 110