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Council reviews plan to repurpose Fire Station 22 and expand community center parking; staff seeks agreement with Forefront Architecture
Summary
City staff asked the Palm Coast City Council on April 8 to approve an agreement with Forefront Architecture and Engineering LLC to produce construction documents for a community center parking expansion and a program-and-needs assessment for the existing Fire Station 22 building.
City staff asked the Palm Coast City Council on April 8 to approve an agreement with Forefront Architecture and Engineering LLC to produce construction documents for a community center parking expansion and to complete a program-and-needs assessment for the existing Fire Station 22 building.
The nut graf: The project seeks to add roughly 90 new parking spaces to serve the community center while exploring adaptive reuse options for the preserved fire station; staff requested council direction on stakeholder representation and agreed to return with interim recommendations during the design phase.
Eric Giebo, an architect with the city, briefed the council on the scope and schedule. He said staff had issued a request for qualifications, received responses and recommended Forefront for the construction-document phase. The staff request covering the construction documents was $104,650, and the programming and needs assessment for the existing Fire Station 22 was $24,620. Giebo said the parking construction documents could start in April with bidding targeted for late 2026 and construction beginning in 2027.
Council members asked who should participate as stakeholders in the programming exercise; staff and speakers recommended representation from the Palm Coast Historical Society, the local arts council, the tourism-development council, schools and parks staff. Kathy Reicherdalowski and Risa Paps of the Palm Coast Historical Society urged the council to consider the historical society as a primary stakeholder and to prioritize preservation and community use. “The entire purpose for fighting to preserve that building was to have it be a reminder in the community that preserving our history matters,” Reicherdalowski told the council.
Ending: Staff said they will work with council members to assemble stakeholders, circulate the draft scope and keep the council updated. The presentation requested approval to proceed with Forefront for the design phase; the transcript shows the council discussed stakeholders and next steps but does not record a roll-call vote on the contract award within the workshop segment.
