Groundbreaking Ceremony for New City Facility

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Thursday, June 12 at 3 pm at a site located at 2602 South Elm-Eugene Street.  This facility will house the Water Resources Operations Center, Police District 2 substation and Fire Station 11.

The Water Resources Operations Center will bring together most of the Water Resources departmental services, including Water Administration, Customer Service and Billing, Meter Services, Engineering, Stormwater and Construction and Maintenance.  Currently, these services operate out of three separate facilities.  The Police District 2 substation will facilitate the practice of community oriented police services by having the station and officers located within the neighborhood they serve.  In addition, conference rooms will be available for citizens to meet with the police officers.  The new Fire Station 11 will replace the 50-year old Station 11 located across the street from the new location.  The station will provide updated facilities to house firefighters, Battalion and Division chiefs and truck bays to accommodate the ladder truck, engine company truck and two Hazardous material tractor-trailers.

Greensboro voters approved the new facility in the November 2000 bond referendum.  The building will be constructed at a cost of $9,603,000 and is located on 17 acres of land.  It is scheduled for completion in August of 2004.  Moser, Mayer, Phoenix Associates designed the facility and J.M Thompson Company of Raleigh, NC, will be responsible for construction.

The site for the new facility formerly housed the Carter Fabrics Plant, built in 1937. Carter Fabrics specialized in nylon and rayon and was the creation of W.J. “Nick” Carter and his brother, Harry Carter.  In 1946, Carter Fabrics and the J.P. Stevens Textile Company merged and became the J.P. Stevens' Carter plant.  Delta Woodside Industries, a South Carolina textile company, bought the plant from Stevens in 1986 and closed in 1995.  The building has stood empty since then.  The City originally had hoped to utilize the original building, but repairs and renovations were estimated to be more costly than constructing a new facility and the building was demolished in 2002.

For more information, contact Tony Kozuch at 373-2960 or Keith Pugh at 373-2229.