![]() “Someone would have to have an extreme love of the building” and the means to pay for moving it, he said. Vernon “Pop” Goold house just around the corner, which was spared from the wrecking ball in 2017 after nearly a year of uncertainty.īut the developer of that project offered to pay the transportation costs involved, and moving the firehouse could be “an extremely expensive procedure,” Minard said. ![]() He’s hoping the firehouse could end up like another historic structure - the J. “The developer should offer to pay at least the cost of demolishing the building to whoever wants to move it, so it would be some kind of inducement for somebody to move it to some other property,” Minard said. Though Fremont planning manager Joel Pullen said the developer is not required to help pay someone to move the building, Minard said he believes SiliconSage should sweeten the pot if it’s really serious about giving the station a chance to survive. Sauder also noted there’s a lot of variables that could influence the cost, such as the permits and clearances needed to move a structure like that on city streets. Hoisting the heavy two-story fire station, built in 1954 of concrete block masonry, and moving it just a few city blocks could cost in the ballpark of $250,000 to $500,000 said Robert Sauder, an estimator with Pennsylvania-based Wolfe House and Building Movers. SiliconSage CEO Sanjeev Acharya said last week the company is waiting for Pacific Gas & Electric to finish removing meters, wires and connections from all the buildings on the block, which could take several more months, before starting demolition in the area. If no one comes forward, the developer will have to at least offer to donate “historic-period architectural materials” from the building before demolition, according to city staff reports. Minard said he also doesn’t think a 60-day time frame for someone to buy the building and submit a proposal to move it is long enough. The council in late 2017 suggested that the firehouse be preserved by the developer for a public use but later reversed course after a consultant concluded development around the station would “result in a substantial adverse change” to its architectural significance because the low adjacent buildings around it would be removed. ![]() “The city has been very reluctant to move forward on historic preservation and to put money in the pot for a proper museum,” he said.Ī 2007 historical study determined the Centerville fire station, decommissioned in 2008, qualified for the California Register because of its architectural significance. “We’ve got precious few historic buildings and museums, and our current little small museum, the Washington Township Museum of Local History, is in a 1950s-era firehouse in Mission San Jose and it’s packed wall to wall and floor to ceiling and it’s running out of room,” Minard said. SiliconSage plans to build 93 apartments with 26,000 square feet of ground-floor retail across several three- and four-story buildings on the northeast side of Fremont Boulevard, between Parish Avenue and Peralta Boulevard, as well as 72 three-story townhouses between the apartments and Jason Way to the east.Īl Minard, former chairman of the city’s Historical Architecture Review Board, which had unanimously recommended retaining the station, said letting the station go either way is the wrong move, and the wise thing to do is preserve it as a public museum. ![]() to Sunnyvale-based developer SiliconSage Builders with the condition that it try to sell the station before razing it to make way for a mixed-use development along an entire city block. The Fremont City Council last March voted to sell the building at 37412 Fremont Blvd. ![]()
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