{"id":318,"date":"2016-05-18T05:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2019-07-27T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T13:56:31","slug":"chapel-hill-plans-new-station-2-as-privatepublic-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/chapel-hill-plans-new-station-2-as-privatepublic-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED – Chapel Hill Plans New Station 2 as Private\/Public Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 18
\nChapelboro.com posted this story yesterday<\/a> with a project update and a drawing. Town council will vote in June whether to approve the joint project, which will erect a fire station and four-story office building on South Hamilton Road.<\/p>\n

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February 11
\nNews out of Chapel Hill. Town Council on Monday approved the sale of Fire Station 2 to a developer, who will replace the facility with a four-story office building that includes a fire station on the ground level. And a two-story parking deck. Here are some details as gleaned from stories in the News & Observer[*] and ChapelBoro.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[*] Link now broken, http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/community\/chapel-hill-news\/article59320608.html<\/p>\n

The fire station is located at 1003 S. Hamilton Road, just south of Highway 54. The one-story, two-bay building opened in 1959. It has 3,710 square-feet and sits on a 1.17 acre lot. The lot is presently valued at $665,000.<\/p>\n

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East-West Partners is planning to purchase the primo property for $1.75 million, then lease the site back to the town. (With a 500-year lease!) The town will pay that back to the developer, to build the fire station. (They’ll add a bit of additional funding to the kitty as well. As may the county, if co-locating an EMS unit is desired.)<\/p>\n

New Station 2 will be larger, and designed as a two-company station. Plus room for said Orange County EMS unit, which is presently housed on the UNC campus. The fire department will move their ladder truck (Tower 73) from Station 3 to Station 2, when the new station opens, notes the interim Fire Chief.<\/p>\n

Where will Engine 2 reside during construction? The college has agreed to house the crew at an old fraternity house (!) near Finley Golf Course. Readers might have more details there.<\/p>\n

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Station Requirements<\/p>\n

This project has been cooking for a couple years. Town Council debated the project in September 2015, as reported in this Chapel Hill Watch posting<\/a>. They revised the Memorandum of Understanding<\/a> (PDF) between the town and the developer, first drafted in 2014.<\/p>\n

That document includes a list of the station requirement, such as:<\/p>\n