Safety-Service Director Dan Given said bids for the city’s new east side fire station, which is expected to be built at the corner of Missouri Avenue and Garfield Boulevard, will go out Wednesday and will take about 30 days to get back.

“From there it’s going through them,” he said. “But it’s our intention to break ground on the new station early this summer.”

Given said a new west side station, which is at 2111 West Park Drive, is about two or three months behind its east side counterpart but it won’t be built at its current location.

Instead, Given said, it likely will be moved further west near the intersection of Kolbe Road and West Erie Avenue.

“We’re tentatively thinking it will be in that corridor but there are still soil samples and things like that we have to take. We want to make sure the land can have that kind of facility before we commit,” he said.

The station will provide coverage to the city’s southeast quadrant, where “the city is seeing continued growth, with substantial growth expected in coming years,” Yoakum said.

The new station’s “design and layout will be almost a twin to Station 303 on West Central Avenue,” he said.

“It will have the same footprint and very much the same look.”