CHEYENNE – City officials hope to sell off an old fire station made vacant by the recent opening of the new Public Safety Center.
The building, located at 1900 E. 18th St., at the intersection of 18th Street and Albany Avenue, most recently housed the police department’s code enforcement officers.
Those officers have moved to the new downtown building.
On Monday, the Cheyenne City Council’s Finance Committee voted to recommend approval of a resolution that would declare the old building a surplus and allow it to be sold.
The resolution must be approved by the full council next week for that to happen.
The city would accept bids for the building, and City Council also would need to approve the final selling price.
Public Works Director Vicki Nemecek said the building’s market value is estimated to be between $65,000 and $78,000.
Dan Long, the city police department’s public information officer, said the department also used the building for storage and kept its mine-resistant, ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP, in the building when that vehicle was first acquired.
A city dumpster in the building’s driveway was full of furniture and other building contents Monday afternoon.
According to Tribune Eagle archives, the city has owned the building since the 1940s.
The building was leased for ambulance service beginning in 1985, and that use continued into the 1990s.
The Girl Scouts were the next tenants, leasing the building until 2004, when City Council at that time declared the building surplus property.
Nemecek said though it was declared surplus, the council rejected all the bids received for the building.
Local leaders then proposed the building be used for a methamphetamine resource center, but that plan fell through after causing controversy in the community.
Nemecek said the building likely started being used by code enforcement around 2012.
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