Construction starts Monday on a new city hall for Etowah, Tennessee, on the town’s main drag thanks to a recently approved $1 million loan.
The project estimated at about $750,000 is scheduled to be finished by mid-March 2020, according to city manager Tina Tuggle. The loan also will help fund a new community pool, estimated to cost between $850,000-$950,000. Loan money will be teamed with a $375,000 state grant, a $300,000 donation and $75,000 in matching funds from the city for the pool project.
Appropriately, the new city hall building will reflect the styling of its historic neighbor, Etowah’s L&N Depot, Tuggle said. The new building will be built on land immediately north of the depot property on Tennessee Avenue.
“The new City Hall will complement the L & N Depot,” Tuggle said via email. “It is not a scaled-down version. It will have several of the same features, but yet [be] different.”
The new city hall won’t have space for city commission meetings, which commissioners decided would continue to be held at the Etowah Community Center on Robinson Street, she said. The new building will house the city’s administrative, human resources, finance, court clerk, and codes and building inspector offices.