Soddy-Daisy is expanding its Fire Hall #3, located on the city’s south end near Veterans Park.
Instead of constructing a new building – for which the estimated cost was $2.2 million – the city now plans to gut the existing building and add five new bays, said City Manager Janice Cagle.
The city commission approved at its Nov. 7 meeting an agreement with Louis Wamp Architect & Associates for $30,000 for the redesign. Once complete, Cagle said Fire Hall #3 will be similar to Fire Hall #2 but with an additional bay.
Although the city does not yet have a firm estimate for the overall cost of the expansion, she said city officials hope the cost will be somewhere between $800,000 and $900,000.
A portion of the cost will be covered by $240,000 donated by the Red Bank and Soddy-Daisy Charitable Foundation, as well as a $50,000 donation from the discretionary fund of former Hamilton County Commissioner Fred Skillern during his final term of office, said Cagle.