Lafayette breaks floor on $21.3M Public Works Campus

Codi SaxonSeptember 9, 2022

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Lafayette breaks floor on .3M Public Works Campus

LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Floor was damaged Wednesday morning on the $21.3 million Public Works Campus. The brand new constructions will maintain the Lafayette avenue, sanitation and fleet upkeep departments.

The brand new Public Works Campus – which is scheduled to be accomplished in 18 months – will sit on 11.27 acres with 8.9 acres being developed for the constructions. These new constructions shall be positioned in Lafayette behind the brand new salt dome at 3601 McCarty Lane.

The campus shall be made up of three buildings with the principle construction being 132,000 sq. ft. Inside that house, 66,000 sq. ft shall be used for the road division, 32,000 sq. ft for fleet upkeep and 24,000 sq. ft for shared areas.

An extra 10,000 sq. ft of house shall be used for an open mezzanine that shall be accessible for additional workplace or space for storing growth, ought to the necessity come up.

Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski spoke about what these new amenities will imply for the Metropolis of Lafayette, particularly by way of long-term upkeep look after town autos and gear that shall be saved in these buildings.

Renderings of the new facility are set up for viewing during the groundbreaking of the new Public Works Campus, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, in Lafayette, Ind.

“We have wished to do that for a very long time,” Roswarski stated. “(Town autos and gear) sit out in 100 diploma temperature and beneath zero temperature. And we attempt to convey those in that we’re utilizing to maintain them heat and thawed and go away the others out and at evening. Having that is gonna be an enormous step within the long-term upkeep of our gear.”

The brand new sanitation division shall be housed in its personal standalone, 16,000-square-foot constructing. It will likely be in a position to maintain as much as 18 vans in addition to a 2,800-square-foot automotive wash.

In response to a launch from town, the fleet upkeep house can have 24 service bays for city-owned autos and gear. It will embody two electrical charging station for Lafayette’s first ever absolutely electrical trash vans. In response to Roswarski, the amenities are “wired up” to permit for added electrical charging stations for extra electrical autos sooner or later, if wanted.

The widespread areas within the amenities will maintain males’s and girls’s locker rooms, a workers room, a health house, convention room and workplaces.

Roswarski said that future plans for the prevailing areas for the road/sanitation departments embody “Lafayette’s model of Central Park,” in addition to further house for the parks division.

“The plan for the road division and the sanitation division on Third and Fowler,” Roswarski stated, “proper now it is a couple of three-and-a-half to 4 acre web site. We plan to show that into Lafayette’s model of Central Park. So when it is all down, we’re gonna tear these buildings down, clear all of it up.

“…We wish to create one other inexperienced house. Benches you possibly can sit on, in all probability a fountain….After which the opposite half out by fleet upkeep, Canal Highway, we’re gonna use that to offer parks’ central upkeep some further house.”

Contractors who’re part of this undertaking embody Accompany LLC, Alderson Industrial Group, Cordogan Clark Keystone Structure, GM Growth Firms LLC, Kettelhut Development, Inc. and TBird Design Providers Corp.