Begun last October, the station was designed and built by Cincinnati United Contractors. Firefighters were dispatch on their first run – a medical call – from the station on Wednesday. “I’m proud of our township team because we were able to bring this project in under budget and ahead of schedule,’’ said Shannon Hartkemeyer, president of the board of trustees. Originally budgeted at $4 million, final cost came in at $3.8 million, Hartkemeyer explained. The 15,750-square foot, single-story, brick station with a steel roof, sits on a three-acre site on the west side of Gilmore Road near the StoryPoint senior housing complex.