What’s New on the Horizon for 2015?

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 A rendering of the Cedar and Kettner parking structure

The literal horizon, that is! Old County buildings will come down and new ones will go up in an ongoing effort to modernize our facilities and keep up with public needs. The projects taking shape in 2015 will affect hundreds of employees – maybe even you. Here are some highlights.

Openings

Cedar and Kettner Parking Structure

  • Scheduled Opening: October 2015
  • Project:  Build a parking structure with 654 spaces for County Administration Center employees. The garage is 10 stories high, three below street level and seven above, next to the Trolley’s Little Italy/County Center Station.

Lakeside Sheriff’s Substation

  • Scheduled Opening: Spring 2015  
  • Project: Move the substation location from a small leased storefront in Lakeside to a larger, newly remodeled building measuring more than 5,300 square feet.

A rendering of the Boulevard Fire StationBoulevard Fire Station

  • Scheduled Opening:  April 2015
  • Project:  Replace the existing facility with a new 7,866 square-foot fire station with living quarters and bays for six emergency vehicles.

North Inland Family Resource Center (Escondido) 

  • Scheduled Completion: May 2015 for June Occupancy
  • Project: Relocate operations from the current Valley Parkway offices into a larger 105,000-square-foot leased facility at 649 W. Mission Ave. The newly remodeled location will include a first for a County Family Resource Center – a Child Support satellite office. More than 400 employees will be making the move.

Las Colinas Detention and Reentry FacilityLas Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility

  • Scheduled Completion: December 2015 for January 2016 occupancy
  • Project: Finish Phase 2 of the multi-year 1,216-bed project to replace the existing facility on the 45-acre campus. 

New Beginnings

Imperial Beach Library

  • Scheduled Completion: Spring 2016
  • Project: Begin construction in summer 2015 for a new 12,000-square-foot library building to replace the existing 5,100-square-foot library built in 1966. The project will also incorporate and remodel an existing 2,000-square-foot community room belonging to the City of Imperial Beach.   

Alpine Library

  • Scheduled Completion: Spring 2016
  • Project: Begin construction in spring 2015 for a new 12,700-square-foot Zero Net Energy Library that will be more than four times larger than the current leased facility.

Crime Lab, Fleet Facility & Parking Structure

  • Schedule Completion:  May 2016 - Fleet Services & Parking Structure, Summer 2018 – Crime Lab
  • Project: Begin construction in spring 2015 on a new 1,200-space parking structure east of the Registrar of Voters building at the County Operations Center. The parking structure will be similar in height but about half the size of the parking garage near the conference center and café. The new garage will also house the relocated Fleet Services. The old Fleet Services building will be demolished to make way for a 158,000-square-foot building that will include a crime lab, space for Sheriff’s property and evidence materials, and administrative offices.  

Planning Stages

Pine Valley Fire Station: Build a new facility with sleeping quarters and four bays for emergency vehicles to replace the existing aged and undersized facility.  

Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk El Cajon Branch office: Locate a site in early 2015 to build a new, larger 19-20,000 square-foot building.  

Borrego Springs Library: Find a site for a new 14-15,000-square-foot building that will be six times the size of the current leased facility.

For more information on planned and proposed construction projects, see General Services’ Current Capital Projects list.