Wake County Staff Favor Office Park Site for New General Services Building; Plan Includes Library Administration and Housing Option

David Rutherford, deputy director of Facilities Design and Construction, presented a conceptual plan July 9 recommending the Wake County Office Park as the preferred location for a consolidated General Services Administration (GSA) facility. Rutherford said the recommendation followed a program-confirmation process, site test fits and a review of response-time needs to county facilities.

Rutherford said GSA currently operates from two primary Wake County sites—401 Capitol Boulevard (about 123,000 square feet on roughly six acres) and a smaller facility at the North Wake landfill campus—and that the agency now maintains county buildings and a fleet far larger than it did 25 years ago. He described the consolidation objective as combining five core GSA functions—administration and support, fleet operations, physical plant, safety and security, and field/facility services—into a single, modern facility sized to serve a 20-year horizon.

Todd Dalton of CPL Architects said program work and staff questionnaires yielded…