City Maintenance Facility Project

phase: ballinger construction

Since 1996, the City’s maintenance crews have shared space at Hamlin Park. This facility is called Hamlin Yard. Its main users are Parks and Public Works crews. Maintenance needs have grown over time, and Hamlin Yard can no longer serve these needs safely and efficiently. In 2015 we began to study building a new Public Works maintenance facility. The location first chosen for building was the North Maintenance Facility property, which the City purchased in 2013. The study found that building a maintenance base at this property had higher cost and risk than the City was comfortable with. After further Council discussion, we looked at ideas to use other properties for a maintenance base. Overall, we found that: There isn’t a single City-owned site that would enable us to build one large maintenance facility; and It isn’t feasible to purchase new property to construct one, large facility.