Dec 5, 2012 11:31 AM
The Westhampton Beach Fire District has decided to move forward with a $14.6 million plan to raze the Sunset Avenue firehouse and build a new one in its stead that will better fit the department’s needs for the next 50 years—if the taxpayers approve it in a spring referendum.
At a fire district meeting on Tuesday evening—attended by only one public official, Village Trustee Patricia DiBenedetto, and eight members of the fire department—representatives from Sandpebble Builders, the Southampton company serving as project manager, and H2M, an architectural and engineering firm based in Melville that has been hired as project consultant, outlined three potential plans ranging from $13.6 million to $15 million that the district had considered to either renovate or replace the current 59-year-old building. In the end, they announced that... more
At a fire district meeting on Tuesday evening—attended by only one public official, Village Trustee Patricia DiBenedetto, and eight members of the fire department—representatives from Sandpebble Builders, the Southampton company serving as project manager, and H2M, an architectural and engineering firm based in Melville that has been hired as project consultant, outlined three potential plans ranging from $13.6 million to $15 million that the district had considered to either renovate or replace the current 59-year-old building. In the end, they announced that... more
