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Saratoga Springs studies replacing aging DPW garage; Wybel Avenue campus emerges as lead relocation site
Summary
Architects reported the city’s main Department of Public Works garage, built in the mid-1970s, is deteriorated and operationally inefficient. Council members asked staff for cost comparisons between repairing the existing Van Rensselaer Street site and building a new facility — with Wybel Avenue campus identified as a promising alternative.
Tad Romer, a registered architect, told the City Council that the main Department of Public Works building on Van Rensselaer Street dates to the mid-1970s and shows widespread structural and envelope deterioration that limits safe, efficient operations.
Romer said the facility’s exterior shell and many interior finishes are “rusted” or worn through, heating is inadequate and storage space for vehicles is limited. He stressed that modern fleet maintenance practice is to store vehicles indoors to protect hydraulic systems and reduce corrosion, and showed photos of rusted dump trucks, worn flooring, drafty windows and a cramped “cold store” that cannot accommodate most of the city’s trucks.
The presentation summarized a feasibility study and three site…
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