Culver City : Fire Station to Be Moved
The Culver City Council and Redevelopment Agency voted Monday to move the city’s downtown Fire Station No. 1 a block east on Culver Boulevard as part of a plan to redevelop the district.
The station, 9760 Culver Blvd., next to City Hall, was built of unreinforced masonry during the 1920s and is considered potentially hazardous if a major earthquake should strike.
The new station will be at the corner of Culver Boulevard and Irving Place on a 60,000-square-foot Redevelopment Agency-owned site currently being used as a parking lot for Brotman Medical Center, according to Deputy Director of Redevelopment Debbie Rich.
An alternate site--the police station parking lot at Duquesne Avenue and Braddock Drive--was less attractive because it is next to residences and lacked direct access to a major arterial street, according to a staff report.
The vote authorizes agency staff to survey and test soil at the site and solicit proposals for architectural plans, specifications and designs, Rich said.
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