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La Marque council weighs $17M–$23M options for new police station, examines bond timing and scope
Summary
La Marque City Council and consultants spent the Aug. 5 budget workshop weighing how to deliver a new police station on a constrained budget, with estimates ranging from roughly $17M for a reduced‑footprint building to as much as $23M after inflation and hardening costs.
La Marque City Council and outside consultants spent much of an Aug. 5 workshop discussing options and costs for a new police station, focusing on tradeoffs among building reuse, new construction on city-owned land, modular construction and where to put soft costs in the city’s financing plan.
Consultant Alec Luong of Project Luong said engineers reverse‑engineered the existing building and concluded bringing it up to the higher “risk category 4” required for a police facility would require substantial steel and foundation work. "We need to add about 50% more steel to the building to make it strong enough to meet category 4," Luong said, and estimated that disassembly and reassembly would add roughly a $1M premium and would likely leave total project costs in…
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