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Moline approves three property purchases to advance new central fire station project
Summary
Council approved three purchase-and-sale agreements totaling $753,500 to acquire sites near Seventh Street as the city moves forward with planning and design for a replacement central fire station, a multi-year project budgeted so new debt will replace retiring debt without raising property taxes.
Moline City Council voted unanimously to authorize three property purchases the city says are needed to develop a replacement central fire station.
City staff told council the existing central fire station, built in 1972 and later modified, requires extensive repairs and that a study had identified the Seventh Street/Sixteenth Avenue area as the preferred replacement neighborhood. "The study did reveal at that time that the building required at that time anywhere between 8 to $9,000,000 worth of repair," City staff member Mr. Vitas told council, citing failing HVAC systems and recent water damage near city IT equipment.
The purchases approved were: a contract with Metropolitan Towers LLC for 1500 and 1508…
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