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Early last Friday morning Lewisville City Hall workers welcomed an official from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to organize some important papers.
The group of about a half dozen including a mayor, a lawyer, a city clerk, and a contractor drove through the stack of papers, crossing the “t’s” and dotting the “i’s,” making official a deal to build a new Fire Hall in Lewisville.
The new building, with the address of 321 Lewis Street West, will sit on the northwest corner of main street. Paid for with stimulus funds including a $276,000 low-interest loan and a $75,000 grant administered through the USDA, the new Hall’s construction will begin this fall with a projected completion date of this December, says Lewisville Mayor Denny Jahnz.
Bids for the new Fire Hall were closed on September 9th with BM Builders of Madelia gaining the contract. Brunton Architects out of Mankato designed the building. Brunton Architects and BM Builders also respectively designed and built the new Darfur Fire Hall which was completed this past September. The Lewisville Fire Hall includes the following features:
• A 3-Hub garage for the firetrucks with a separate ambulance bay.
• An office area to the right for meetings. The building is set up for the addition of future offices if needed.
• Men’s and women’s bathrooms, a janitor’s closet.
According to Brunton’s Project Manager, Scott Kamps, the new hall will be slightly bigger than Darfur’s. That’s logical since the total investment figure tops Darfur’s project by just over $100,000.
Mayor Jahnz on Friday spoke about the key role City Clerk Karen Altenburg had in making this a reality. Altenburg was the person most responsible for finding this grant and getting the application process and paperwork done, says Jahnz.
“She put in a lot of extra work,” said Jahnz.
Lewisville’s City Council discussed the idea of renovating the existing hall shortly after a fire on main street in the summer of 2009. Thanks to the available stimulus funds, discussions shifted from renovation to building a brand new hall. There was talk they might build on an adjacent site to the old hall, but this past July the Council agreed to build down the street.
Lewisville has a Fire Department with 20 members as well as an ambulance service.
Early last Friday morning Lewisville City Hall workers welcomed an official from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to organize some important papers.
The group of about a half dozen including a mayor, a lawyer, a city clerk, and a contractor drove through the stack of papers, crossing the “t’s” and dotting the “i’s,” making official a deal to build a new Fire Hall in Lewisville.
The new building, with the address of 321 Lewis Street West, will sit on the northwest corner of main street. Paid for with stimulus funds including a $276,000 low-interest loan and a $75,000 grant administered through the USDA, the new Hall’s construction will begin this fall with a projected completion date of this December, says Lewisville Mayor Denny Jahnz.
Bids for the new Fire Hall were closed on September 9th with BM Builders of Madelia gaining the contract. Brunton Architects out of Mankato designed the building. Brunton Architects and BM Builders also respectively designed and built the new Darfur Fire Hall which was completed this past September. The Lewisville Fire Hall includes the following features:
• A 3-Hub garage for the firetrucks with a separate ambulance bay.
• An office area to the right for meetings. The building is set up for the addition of future offices if needed.
• Men’s and women’s bathrooms, a janitor’s closet.
According to Brunton’s Project Manager, Scott Kamps, the new hall will be slightly bigger than Darfur’s. That’s logical since the total investment figure tops Darfur’s project by just over $100,000.
Mayor Jahnz on Friday spoke about the key role City Clerk Karen Altenburg had in making this a reality. Altenburg was the person most responsible for finding this grant and getting the application process and paperwork done, says Jahnz.
“She put in a lot of extra work,” said Jahnz.
Lewisville’s City Council discussed the idea of renovating the existing hall shortly after a fire on main street in the summer of 2009. Thanks to the available stimulus funds, discussions shifted from renovation to building a brand new hall. There was talk they might build on an adjacent site to the old hall, but this past July the Council agreed to build down the street.
Lewisville has a Fire Department with 20 members as well as an ambulance service.
