$400,000 Closer to A New Fire Station in Niceville

In Brief:

โ€ขWho: ๐Ÿ™๏ธ Niceville residents, City Manager David Deitch, Phil Schulz, Fire Chief Tommy Mayville

โ€ขWhat: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Secured a $400,000 grant for fire station design and engineering

โ€ขWhen: ๐Ÿ“† Timetable for construction not yet announced

โ€ขWhere: ๐Ÿ“ Deer Moss Creek Development, Niceville, Florida

โ€ขWhy: ๐Ÿš’ Address growing emergency service needs and improve hurricane preparedness for the eastern part of the city

Niceville’s residents are $400,000 closer to a fire station on the City’s east side.

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City Manager David Deitch announced that the City’s grants writer, Phil Schulz, had secured an almost half-million dollar grant for the engineering and design work for the project – which the municipality plans to build somewhere in the Deer Moss Creek Development.

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Niceville Fire Chief Tommy Mayville Estimated the design and engineering work to be about 10% of the total cost of the building. A new fire station in Spanish Fort, Alabama, which serves a population of about 11,000, built a new fire station last year for $6.3 Million, according to Lagniappe – a Mobile-based online news outlet.

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RELATED: Okaloosa School Board Buys Land in Deer Moss Creek Development in Niceville

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The fire station would support the needs of the rapidly growing eastern portion of the City, which could see more than 3,000 new homes in the next decade. Developers have opened blocks of a three-story apartment complex that will eventually house 304 units.

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Deitch expects the new fire station to withstand sustained winds from a Category 5 hurricane. It would be the only building in the area rated to survive such a storm besides Raider Arena at Northwest Florida State College.

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The city leadership did not give a timetable for the construction of the fire station.

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Deer Moss Creek Subdivision is an eight-minute drive on Spence Parkway from the City’s only fire station or a ten-minute drive along John Sims Parkway.

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