Fire House For Sale

Fire station project over by $11000 in Waterloo

WATERLOO, Iowa --- An agreement to relocate a station Carrefour area fire for a new CVS pharmacy was supposed to be cost-neutral.

But figures released Friday by the city show the new building cost about $ 11.165 more than the city received when it sold the fire station No. 8 on the corner of La Porte Road and San Marnane Drive.

This does not include the cost of a new signalized intersection at Ridgeway Avenue and La Porte, which was not discussed in the context of selling the station of origin.

"I am disappointed that it was not at all," said Councillor Harold Getty, who was anxiously awaiting the numbers. "This is $ 11 000 may be a small drop in the bucket, but it's still a drop in the ocean he would not have been there."

Other city officials noted the new CVS Pharmacy being built at the site of the old fire station will be generating $ 18 000 in property tax revenue for the city with additional tax revenues for the District of County and school. The city also replaced an old fire station with a new building.

Council members agreed in 2009 to sell Station No.8 for $ 2,127,506 in equity acquisitions first Rolling Meadows, Illinois, which would develop the new pharmacy. The transaction was conditional on the city being able to find a new location and construction of a replacement --- --- renamed Station No. 2 with the proceeds of the sale.

The city has purchased land north of the Panera Bread restaurant, not far from the old site, for $ 270 000, paid another $ 105 000 for design, approved a contract for $ 1.65 million with Cardinal Construction Co., and approved a number of other incidental costs that have pushed the total expenditure over the amount of the sale.

City Council members Monday are required to accept the final contract and release the last payment on the portion of the construction cardinal.

These amounts do not include the estimated $ 475 000 project to reconfigure the intersection of Ridgeway / La Porte. The work is financed with funds 80 percent federal match of 20 percent of the city. Cost $ 95 000 The City has option tax revenues of local sales.

Community Planning and Development Director Anderson Christmas said the intersection was planned anyway to help improve access to area businesses, including the former Kmart Plaza, but was pushed forward to accommodate the new barracks. Emergency vehicles exiting onto the road to La Porte need a quick way to get on Ridgeway and head west.

Getty argues that the intersection should be counted as part of the deficit project fire station.

Sale of Millard Road fire department properties off | River ...

An agreement was reached this summer to sell the fire station, two adjacent houses and a vacant lot in August Dr. Krym August optics. The agreement was to sell properties for $ 300,000, plus the use of houses by the Fabius-Park Fire Department (FPFD) for five months, after which the FPFD would pay rent of $ 500 per month. However, the sale was not completed because the buyer was not able to obtain financing.

In an interview with the River Country Journal, Brueck said, "According to his real estate agent, he could not get financing for his return and we have discussed a contract territory.The Board of Fire did not like this idea if we just said we were not interested in a contract for the land and we just fired him the same proposal. We took the vacant lot and keep up the $ 300,000 as well. . . it is in his ballpark. "

Brueck said "three or four other people" have "shown interest in the property."

Meanwhile, the activity to the construction of three new fire houses on the site of the new fire station on the Broadway road "in process". Brueck said he had two plans selected by the Board of Fire and volunteered to "redraw" them.He said that the Board of Fire "will sit down and decide which of the two and then we'll put the thing out of the application. In this way, all the local builders are bidding on the same. It will not a design / build, as we started. "

The money from the sale of properties Millard Road will be used to pay for new fire houses.

Brueck said he is interested in knowing what the response time of the fire department had been since his arrival in the new quarters sixth months ago and asked Andy Goldberger, director of St. Joseph County Central Dispatch E-911 for this information.

Fire Council The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 7 at 6:00 p.m. at the new fire station. Brueck said: "This is an open meeting. Everyone is welcome. "

To hear the interview with Dave Brueck (4:38) - led by Bruce Snook, the River Country Journal - click here.

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