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Select one of three concepts for the proposed New City Hall project (22-0019-EN).
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SUMMARY:
On September 15, 2022, Council approved a work order to Wannemacher Jensen Architects (WJA) for design of a new city hall. The design scope included three concepts of varying architectural styles for an approximately 40,000 square feet (SF), LEED silver building on the vacant city-owned parcel south of the MSB (1.673 acres) or connected to the MSB on the exiting parcel (1.67 acres).
Since the work order approval, council provided direction to the City Manager to consider one large city hall to accommodate not only staff currently located at 600 Cleveland Street but all staff in the MSB with options to repurpose the MSB building (66,570 SF) and parcel. With this new direction, WJA was asked to provide concept drawings and construction cost estimates of three options, the two originally included and one large city hall on the parcel south of MSB.
The concepts provided are summarized below:
In support of the proposed city hall project, the City hired Long & Associates to complete a building condition assessment of the MSB and provide cost estimates to modernize the MSB for long term use to align with new city hall options that retain use of the MSB.