Last week the town learned a commercial tenant had taken out a lease on a portion of the building at 150 Cordaville Road. The building was being considered for a new public safety complex. But selectmen this week quashed any further speculation about the building.
Now that it has a commercial tenant, selectmen said at their meeting on Tuesday that the building is no longer an option for the town and they instructed the Municipal Facilities Committee to stop researching it.
That means the town is back to figuring out how to make the existing Main Street property work. The two primary options are to tear down the current police station and build a new one on the site or to renovate and add on to the existing building. A third option would make no major changes except what is necessary to maintain the building for some period of time.
The various groups working on the plans will present them at town meeting later this month.
(For the latest on the development of a new police station, click here.)
So typical…….drag your feet and something you don’t want goes away
Very disappointed 150 Cordaville is off the table.
The committee should also be given the task of a plan Station 2 – fully staffed, fully equipped and fully repaired. The response time to the south side would just be to long, this serves a large population of the town.
In discussion of the ladder truck I heard our fire professionals, tell us how fast a fire spreads in 3 seconds, 5 seconds and survival stats for a heart attack victim. Now out of the clear 150 Cordaville is dropped.
God help anyone who lives on Southville Rd!!!