WESTON, WI (WSAU) — A groundbreaking for a new municipal building has been completed.
Tuesday evening the Village of Weston and the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce held a groundbreaking for the Village’s new municipal hall. The planned 23,117 square foot building on Camp Phillips Road will replace the current village hall on Schofield Ave. that was built back in 1956.
Ceremonial turning of the dirt for a groundbreaking celebration of the new Village of Weston Municipal Hall on July 20th, 2021. (MWC file photo by Liz Holbrook)
Concerns about the current Village Hall and the end of its useful life prompted the new building project that has been in the works since 2016. The new building project was awarded to Miron Construction, a Neenah-based construction firm, in April of this year. Village Administrator Keith Donner says construction has already begun on the building.
“It started with the clearing of the site. There’s some more clean-up to be done next week. And then following that there’s going to be additional underground work done on the utilities. From here on, it’s going to be about 14 months of construction activity.”
Donner says the importance of the new municipal building can’t be understated as the current facility has several major concerns and potential hazards. “[The building] not being energy efficient, not having sufficient storage space for equipment. There are some safety concerns in our shop. Those are certainly not things that we want employees or the Village residents in for liability reasons.”
The planned facility will have a base building with a VRF HVAC system, a repair bay crane, a vehicle and mobile column lifts, and two manual vehicle wash bays. The current cost of the building is $14,372,787 that is covered by an approved $15,000,000 in financing by the Finance Committee and the Board of Trustees.
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