The 14-member panel has developed a 12-page report for County Manager Mark Schwartz, and will brief County Board members in mid-June. The group’s recommendations are expected to be taken into account as the Arlington government preps to raze the existing fire station, located on Lee Highway in the Halls Hill/High View Park neighborhood, and replace it with a new, two-bay station on the same site.
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Several members of the panel said the most important way to honor the station’s past is to provide for its future.
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“Finally, our neighborhood fire station will become a state-of-the-art station – the men and women who work there deserve the best,” said Marguarite Gooden, who represented the John M. Langston Citizens Association on the working group and whose brother and father worked at Fire Station #8.