The Hoover City Council on Monday night voted to pay $1.3 million for a former bank property on U.S. 31 in the Green Valley area so the Hoover Fire Department can relocate Fire Station No. 1 there, HooverSun.com reported.
The property, owned by Village Stations Inc., is between Salvatore’s Pizza & Pasta and the Stone Creek Dental Care building and has 120 feet of frontage along U.S. 31, a city official said.
For many years the city has been trying to find land to relocate Fire Station No. 1, the report said.
The existing station, which is behind the Hoover Court shopping center, is the oldest municipal building in the city. It was built by volunteer firefighters and used as both a fire station and meeting place even before the city incorporated, according to the report.
While it has been renovated and expanded over the years and functioned well for 50 to 60 years, it’s still old and not as functional, modern and visible as city officials would like it to be, the report said.
