Lenexa approves preliminary plan for Fire Station 6, with construction to start this fall

Lenexa’s City Council voted to approve a preliminary plan for a three-building Office and Public Safety Services development that will put a new Fire Station 6 and administrative offices on the former City Hall/police site at 12300 West 87th Street Parkway.

Stephanie Sullivan of the Community Development Department told the council the proposed site plan includes three buildings totaling “about 61,000 square feet,” with the fire station and administrative offices comprising the roughly 27,000-square-foot first phase. She said the site is accessed from Long Street, Monrovia Street and 85th Terrace and is zoned CPO, a lower-intensity office district.

Ellen Foster of Finkel Williams Architecture, the project’s designer, said the plan preserves mature landscaping along the north edge of the site to buffer adjacent residences and separates apparatus and visitor traffic “for emergency efficiencies.” Foster told council the immediate work to follow preliminary approval includes a final development plan and plat in August, a guaranteed maximum price/construction contract back before council in October, and a construction start in November, with finish targeted in spring–summer 2028.

Council members pressed staff and the architect on logistics during construction, including maintaining emergency response capacity and temporary apparatus bays. Foster and project partners presented a construction logistics diagram showing a temporary apparatus bay and circulation that would allow emergency vehicles to operate during most of the build.

The council approved the preliminary plan and plat by voice vote. The mayor said the matter will return in coming months for final plan, GMP approval and other necessary steps before construction.