Village of Hartland presents site options for new police, fire and village hall; bowling‑alley parcel shown as possible site

The Village of Hartland on Wednesday held a public listening session where village officials and architecture firm Keller presented options for replacing or relocating the police department, fire station and village administrative offices, including a privately owned bowling‑alley parcel the village has begun evaluating as a possible site for police and village administration.

The discussion matters because officials said the existing buildings are decades old, need substantial maintenance and do not meet projected space or operational needs: the village estimates roughly $4,000,000 in near‑term maintenance on the current municipal building and large increases in required square footage for public safety operations.

Devin, a project manager with Keller, summarized the firm’s work developing needs assessments and preliminary plans. He said the existing fire facility has about 8,900 square feet and the firm’s estimate of the fire department’s future needs is about 19,800 square feet; the police department’s current building is about 8,500 square feet and its projected future need is about 22,000 square feet. Keller’s drawings for a consolidated police and village administration building show about 36,000 square feet of space in the conceptual layouts shown to the public.

“Looking at properties the village owns is priority number one,” Devin said during the presentation, explaining the team first screened municipal parcels and then a longer list of sites. He described a multi‑year process that began…