Representatives from the Stanford Heights Fire Department presented a slightly scaled down plan to build a new $12.5 million fire station behind the existing station on Central Avenue, SpotlightNews.com reported.

There are five parcels of land totaling three-plus acres along Central Avenue between Covington and Wilber avenues that will be combined into one parcel to accommodate the new fire station with a footprint of 15,000 square feet, the report said. With a portion of the station having a second floor, with a community room, offices and a commercial kitchen, the total square footage is proposed to be about 23,000 square feet.

The existing station is about 14,000-square-feet and will eventually be razed, according to the report.

As proposed, the fire apparatus will utilize drive-through bays and leave for calls onto Wilber Avenue and return via Covington Avenue. Currently, the apparatus has to swing around in the front of the building onto Central Avenue — with a firefighter directing traffic — and backed into the bays. There would be three drive-through bays with four overhead doors on the Wilber Avenue side of the building.

The original plan, proposed in August, 2020, had five drive-through bays and a 17,000-square-foot footprint, the report said.

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