The Shorewood Plan Commission recommended the village board sell the firehouse on a 5-1 vote at its meeting on March 27. The village board briefly discussed the sale in closed session April 2. Trustees are tentatively scheduled to continue that discussion at an April 16 meeting.   

The North Shore Fire Department currently pays Shorewood $6,600 per month to rent 9,000 square feet in the 19,000-square-foot building.

For NSFD to continue leasing the space, Fire Chief Robert Whitaker said the village would have to make a significant investment in the aging building.

The building will total over 9,000 square feet including living quarters with six rooms, and an apparatus bay with six large overheard doors total, according to GSG Architecture project manager Britney Sulzen. It’s the fourth station in Casper the firm has worked on, said Sulzen.  

The projected cost will be at $3.3 million and is paid by the one-cent tax, said Sulzen. It will be completed in late January of 2019.