The total cost for a new fire station in Leawood city went up by $400,000 this week.
At Monday’s meeting, the Leawood City Council approved a change order increasing the construction price for Fire Station No. 1, bringing the total price of the project to roughly $7.2 million
The move came as part of the meeting’s consent agenda, passed simultaneously with a list of other items, and garnered no discussion.
The fire station will be at 96th and Lee Boulevard
- The city’s plans for the station entail a one-story, 14,200-square-foot station.
- The finished building will have a basement, four bays and living quarters for nine people.
- City officials estimate the station’s construction will wrap up in July.
Construction costs added to bottom line
- When the anticipated finishing date moved from last November to this coming July, the city racked up some additional construction costs — including adding protection at the site to allow for construction during winter weather.
- In 2022, the city approved two other change orders for winter construction costs — underdrain work and the removal of remnants of the demolished police station on that property — each for $200,000.
- This new change order also covers disposal of unusable soil and asphalt work.
- Altogether, these three changes brought the station’s total cost from $6.3 million to $7.2 million.
The city may soon OK a second new fire station
- In recent discussions, the city council also considered putting a fourth fire station that would serve as the fire department’s new headquarters, on the northeast corner of Roe Avenue and Town Center Drive, near Leawood Pioneer Library.
- The new fire station would be paid for, in part, using roughly $1.6 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
- No plans for that station have been finalized yet, but pending city approval, fire department officials said the design process for the project could kick off later this year.
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