Facilities & Events director outlines garage, events and parks operations; offers follow-up financial briefing
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Summary
Matthew Deck, director of Facilities & Events, gave an overview of city facilities (including the newly opened Union Garage), the municipal events program and parks-related amenities. Deck highlighted the Union Garage (300 spaces, four EV chargers initially), event attendance figures (13,000 for Westfield Rocks the Fourth 2025 at Grand Park)
Matthew Deck, director of Facilities & Events, presented the department’s facilities inventory and the city’s events program, and offered to return with a financial briefing on Grand Park and other contracts.
Deck listed city facilities (city services, city hall, public safety building, Fire Stations 81–83, Grand Park Sports Campus, the Union Garage and planned fire stations 84 and 85 and a new police headquarters). He noted the newly opened Union Garage (opened Oct. 3) has 300 parking spaces and four EV spaces with future capability to expand to 16 EV spaces; the garage is gateless and uses eco-parking technology in partnership with Spot Genius and will be operated by Denison.
On events, Deck introduced his events team and listed recurring city events (Melt the Trail, Shamrock Drop, Spring Swing, Westfield International Festival, Donut Trail, Touch a Truck, Westfield Rocks the Fourth, Barktoberfest, Trick or Treating in the Plaza and Westfield in Lights). He said the Westfield International Festival is scheduled for May 16 and that Westfield Rocks the Fourth drew more than 13,000 people at Grand Park in 2025; Deck said the 2026 celebration will expand to two days for America’s 250th.
Deck also described the Woodwind Golf Course partnership with O’Neil Golf Management and said the city is evaluating three new golf holes expected to open in 2027. He said Waypoint Strategies is working on a comprehensive facilities assessment and a 5- and 10-year capital plan, including code compliance, energy optimization and a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) for city properties.
Councilors thanked Deck and requested a follow-up presentation after the new year to include Grand Park maintenance contract financials, Woodwind Golf Course operating results and the Liv (golf) event financial reconciliation once vendor reports are available.
Why it matters: The presentation outlines public assets, partnerships and planned capital work; the follow-up financial briefing requested by council will provide data for assessing event and facility costs and benefits.
