James Coburn
The Edmond Sun
EDMOND —
Bids will be opened Tuesday for the demolition of the City of Edmond Administration Building at 100 E. First St., said Herb Blomquist, director of Edmond Public Works. The 70,000-square-foot Edmond Public Safety Center will be built on the 1-acre site.
Voters approved a five-year half-cent sales tax in 2011 to fund the project. The vote also allows the city to loan itself money out of the $7.2 million Hospital Trust Fund with an improved return of investment on that trust fund. The half-cent sales tax has collected $4.996 million since April when the tax went into effect, according to city figures.
“Downtown will soon become a challenge,” Blomquist said this week to members of the Capital Projects and Financing Task Force.
City employees are organizing to move to a new facility under reconstruction on the southwest corner of Broadway and Danforth.
Police laboratory, vehicles, evidence-based storage and other related functions will be located at the $3.5 million auxiliary building to be constructed as a 5,000-square-foot facility northwest of 33rd and Broadway.
Construction for the $25.5 million Public Safety Center should take 18 months to two years and the building should open in early 2015.
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