(Seguin) — The city of Seguin continues to work toward building its first-ever fire station north of Interstate 10. The areas north of I-10 are some of the fastest-growing in the city, and that’s one of the reasons why the new firehouse is needed.
Fire Chief Garrick Herbert provided an update on plans for the project during Tuesday’s meeting of the Seguin City Council.
“We really got the foundations for our design down, and now we’re moving into the portion where we begin working with our architect to select our contractor to be able to put pricing to this project and make sure that we stay on track,” said Herbert.
Chief Herbert says they’ve spent months working on the designs for the exterior and interior of the building.
“We used Martinez Architect, who we selected last year, and they’ve been helping guide us through this design phase. This is just a quick snapshot,” said Herbert.
Herbert says Fire Station No. 4 would be built on land provided as part of the master-planned Walnut Springs Subdivision, located along Rudeloff and Huber roads. He says the project addresses the immediate needs in the area while also making sure there’s room for additional fire service growth in the future.
“We are currently looking at three to four apparatus bays, depending on what our budget will allow, in order to not only house what we have today, but as well as equipment storage and expansion into the future. This is currently set up to house eight bedrooms inside of it, and those eight bedrooms are to address our needs today, with a little bit of room for growth. The station is being built with expansion in mind. This has been a very committee-based design as we go through this. And what was important to us was to make sure that we didn’t spend money that we have today on something that may be (needed) 10 years from now. We have to plan for that, but we also have to address the needs that we have immediately before us. And we believe we’ve done that through this station design,” said Herbert.
The city is expected to soon hire a Construction Manager-at-Risk to oversee the project, which would provide the city with a guaranteed maximum cost for the project. Once that happens, the project can move into the construction phase. The project is expected to be completed in 2028.