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The city has put out a request for proposals on a contract to retrofit six fire stations around the city, including Station 25 at 13th and E Pine St. The station requires seismic upgrading, but the proposed project also calls for improvements to the vehicle maintenance garage and living quarters. In total, the project is estimated to cost $3.2 million.
The work requires that the station remain operational throughout construction.
Funding for the projects comes from the 9-year fire levy passed by voters in 2003 (started in 2004). The total estimated cost for the six projects included in the proposal tops $14 million.
Bids are due September 8, and the contract should be finalized by November. If all goes according to schedule, work would begin in 2013 and end in 2014.
From the RFP:
Fire Station 25 (Capitol Hill): Fire Station 25, located at 1300 East Pine Street, is the lead station for Battalion II which serves the central Seattle. It houses an engine company (E25) a ladder unit (L10), an aid unit (A10) and a battalion chief unit. It also houses a reserve battalion chief unit and a reserve ladder unit. The station is in fair condition but requires additional seismic bracing to meet current codes. Other improvements to the station will include a small addition and remodel which will provide improvements to the decontamination, crew preparation and vehicle maintenance functions of the station. The remodel will also involve areas of the basement and second floor which will allow for reconfiguration of the living quarters and bunk rooms. Emergency services are expected to be remain on site while the station is being upgraded. Total project estimated cost is $3.2 million.
How about doing something to make it less UGLY? I hate that big concrete bunker (although obviously I appreciate the firefighters and all their life-saving and stuff).
Well, the truth is that most of the fire stations in Seattle are not what you’d call buildings with award winning architecture.
Look at the rest:
http://www.seattle.gov/fire/firestations/stations.htm
It was designed during the mid sixties and intended to be a bunker in case of civil unrest, nuclear attack and natural disasters. It has a massive fallout shelter underneath, two foot thick concrete walls and roof able to take the weight of helicopters landing on it. There are tiny windows to crew quarters(hard to throw molotov cocktails into) stairwells central to the building, plastic windows that will not fragment from explosion and hidden passages beneath the street for escape and resupply. The building also as it’s own generators, water supply and food stores. The people who built it had the worst case scenario in mind and it made sense fifty years ago.
For the last month they’ve been tearing off the roofing, adding new, re-tarring, ripping more off, adding more tar, on and on. Is this a normal re-roof process for a flat roof?
i always love looking @ their disco ball installed inside on the ceiling =) wonder if they ever put it to use??