The new West Vancouver Police Department and municipal hall building is coming together ahead of deadline and (mostly) on budget.
Council received an update on the 57,000-square-foot, two-storey project adjacent to the current municipal hall on May 1.
Although construction costs are coming in about $3.4 million higher than the $25,187,000 initially budgeted, the overrun is covered by a contingency fund council included in the $36-million project, and consulting costs have been somewhat lower than estimated.
The police department faces a deadline of Dec. 31 to move out of its current aging building on Marine Drive, which will then be demolished and the land redeveloped by Grosvenor, for which the district is being compensated $37 million.
Council is using $7.7 million from the district’s endowment fund and borrowing just more than $28 million to fund the project in the meantime.
West Vancouver police are tentatively scheduled to move into their new digs in September. Municipal services will migrate over the following month.
As the new building is connected to the existing municipal hall, council will be taking a five-week hiatus.
While most of the services citizens access will be in the new building, the mayor’s office and council chamber will remain in the old one.
