District to Vote on Proceeding with New Estimated $8.3M Taylors (SC) Fire Station

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Photos courtesy of DP3 Architects.

New Station to Serve as Gateway to the Community

PRESS RELEASE

Design for the new Taylors Fire and Rescue station was completed recently after a five-year delay. The district will vote to proceed in the coming months with construction estimated to start soon after. It is expected to be completed within a year.

The initial programming and schematic design started in March 2018 and then it was halted pending restructuring of the fire and sewer district. Design restarted in January 2023 and was completed in June.

The estimated $8.3 million fire station (pricing has not been finalized), which will replace their existing station across the street at 3335 Wade Hampton Boulevard, will also include a $750,000 maintenance shop building.

The new 23,050-square-foot fire headquarters will contain administrative offices, a community meeting/training room, three drive-through apparatus bays and one back-in bay, along with firefighter living and work areas. The new campus also includes a new 4,450-square-foot fleet maintenance building servicing apparatus for the entire department.

Established in 1958 as a Special Purpose District, Taylors Fire Rescue serves a large area that includes a variety of industrial, business, church, school, and residential development. Creating a new headquarters for this growing area of Greenville County will address the facility design needs for the fire department and serve as a beacon of safety and security to the community.

Located at the intersection of a major highway and main street leading to downtown, this new building will serve as a gateway to Taylors, South Carolina. Architectural forms and materials will be reminiscent of the Historic Southern Bleachery Mill, originally constructed in 1924, and the Enoree River train trestle which carried the first Southern Railway tracks from Charlotte to Greenville constructed in 1873. Both have strong ties to the history of this community and are still in use today.

The project is being developed using the Construction Manager at Risk construction delivery method with DP3 Architects and Hogan Construction, LLC providing the pre-construction and construction services for the project.

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