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Rockwall study outlines $140M in potential city facility projects, urges staged approach
Summary
Park Hill presented a facilities planning study to Rockwall City Council on April 21 that identifies five major projects — a City Hall renovation/addition, a Fire Station 1 replacement, a new Service Center campus, a consolidated public safety facility and a four‑level downtown parking garage — with combined preliminary cost estimates of roughly $140 million.
Park Hill, an architectural and planning consultant, presented a city facilities planning study to the Rockwall City Council on April 21 that lays out options to meet projected staffing and service needs over the next 10–20 years, including five major projects with conceptual designs and order‑of‑magnitude costs.
The study, led by Michael Howard of Park Hill, recommends renovating and adding to City Hall, replacing Fire Station 1, relocating and modernizing the Service Center campus, building a consolidated two‑story public safety facility to house police, fire administration and an emergency operations center (EOC), and constructing a four‑level, roughly 400‑space downtown parking structure. Howard said the package of five projects would total in the neighborhood of $140 million under the study’s assumptions.
Howard said Park Hill’s work began with…
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