Trio of high-profile Greenwood County projects on schedule
A trio of high-profile county projects are moving forward on schedule.
County Manager Toby Chappell told council members Monday that early conceptual designs for a $3.1 million animal shelter and adoption facility to be built on Old Laurens Road have been submitted, nearly a month after Greenwood leaders voted unanimously to construct the facility.
The 15,000- square-foot complex — to be built on 10 acres of county-owned land across from the Leath Correctional Institution — will be funded through a public-private partnership between the county and the Humane Society of Greenwood, which is putting up $1.1 million of capital, or 35 percent of the total.
Expected to open in the spring of 2018, the facility will replace a 50-year-old site on the former Civic Center grounds originally built as a dog pound and never intended to be used as a daily clearinghouse for the county’s wayward animals.
Meanwhile, the county is expected to submit site plans for its North Greenwood Industrial Park to the state Department of Health and Environmental Control by late May. It’s the first phases of an $8.45 million venture using capital project sales tax dollars to develop a 31.7-acre site on Highway 25 that will include a 100,000-square-foot speculative building.
Finally, Chappell said, a meeting is planned this week to create schematics for a $900,000 fire station in Ware Shoals that will replace the town’s aging building at 39 E. Main St.
Under terms of the deal – known as a memorandum of understanding – the cost of land preparation, construction and design is being carried by the county, while Ware Shoals will pay for equipment and compensation for firefighters.
The county is also responsible for “infrastructure maintenance” and “operational costs” related to the station.
Originally Published by Index-Journal on:Apr 18, 2017
By ADAM BENSON abenson@indexjournal.com