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Gallatin mayor presses council to weigh rebuilding City Hall as Boyle Investments explores downtown redevelopment
Summary
Mayor Paige Brown and city consultants briefed the Gallatin City Council July 8 on a Studio 8 space-needs assessment and the financial trade-offs between renovating the existing 1974 City Hall and building a new facility, noting the choice would shape any proposed private redevelopment of the municipal block with Boyle Investments.
The Gallatin City Council devoted significant time July 8 to Project Phoenix, a private-sector redevelopment concept for the municipal block that has prompted a city-funded space-needs assessment and consultation with Studio 8 planners. Mayor Paige Brown urged the council to consider whether to rebuild City Hall or renovate the existing 1974 structure, a decision that would shape any private redevelopment partnership with Boyle Investments.
The assessment, prepared independently by Studio 8 and requested by the Industrial Development Board in 2024, estimates the city’s 20-year space needs at roughly 42,000–47,000 gross square feet. Studio 8 presented a rough order-of-magnitude cost comparison: renovating the existing building plus a public-works addition was estimated at about $25 million; a new 42,000-square-foot City Hall was roughly $25.2 million (and a 47,000-square-foot new building roughly $28.2 million). The consultants stressed these are coarse, square‑footage-derived estimates, not detailed construction bids.
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