ALLEN COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - While it looks like nothing is being done at the proposed site of Allen County's new administrative building, progress is being made.
Department heads and elected officials are getting an update on the building plans. Commissioners and the WDC Group have been working on finalizing those plans for the new 30,000-square-foot structure housing seven departments.
"That's the board of commissioners working with our team and really looking at the intricacies of the innards of the building. The HVAC unit, the sprinkler system, and want not. We've made some tweaks over the past couple of weeks that have pushed it back a little bit, but we're still within that timeline," said Cory Noonan, Allen County Commissioner.
That timeline hopes to have all designs done and out to bid by July, with construction starting in the early fall. Once the current buildings start to come down, the building of the new structure will soon follow. Commissioners say the 17-and-a-half million-dollar project will not put the county in debt.
"Funding for this project, we were able to use ARPA dollars, and then we were able to use some capital dollars. With the ARPA, with the capital and some other cash that we have been able to save, we are going to spend cash on this structure," added Noonan.
The final part of the design phase will include departments picking out color schemes and office space layouts.
