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Newport council approves architect for police and animal-control project; animal shelter funding to include Mulvey bequest
Summary
Council approved hiring Smelter architectural firm to design a new police department and animal-control facility. The animal shelter project is intended as a joint city–county effort and will draw on installments of a donor bequest.
The Newport City Council approved hiring Smelter architectural firm to design a new police department and an animal-control facility on a recently acquired parcel (Ryan property) on Cope Boulevard.
City Administrator James Fincher said the city is in the process of purchasing approximately eight acres of property (six acres intended for construction) and expects design and construction to be a two-year effort. The selection of Smelter’s firm was based on a prior working relationship: the firm previously worked on Newport police department remodeling and is currently…
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