BY ZACHARIA WASHINGTON
Cedar Park
Building
Size
Description
Public safety training facility*
Main training building, which includes a large meeting room, two training rooms and the permanent emergency operations center.
17,000 sq. ft.
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Hands-on training facility where the police and re departments can practice drills, such as entry into buildings. Includes a simulated training course and an instruction catwalk.
10,000 sq. ft.
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Apparatus bay for re and emergency response vehicles, a warehouse for training supplies, and an outdoor classroom.
7,700 sq. ft.
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RENDERING COURTESY CITY OF CEDAR PARK
*DESIGN PLANS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
SOURCE: CITY OF CEDAR PARK COMMUNITY IMPACT
the O ce of Homeland Security to better monitor tra c, weather and other threats. The roughly $30 million facility was approved by Cedar Park residents in the 2022 bond program. “You can’t ask for a better opportunity to train altogether anytime of the day or night that we choose to do so. That’s what [this] facility brings altogether,” Wukasch said.
The design for Cedar Park’s new public safety training facility is expected to be completed this fall, with construction anticipated to begin at the end of the year, city o cials said. Public safety training facilities—places where collective training activities take place—are com- mon in the Central Texas region, Wukasch said. Currently, the re, police and emergency
management departments move to various locations to train. The new facility—which will be located at 1200-1204 Fire Lane—will not only allow these activities to take place in a centralized location, but it will also be the rst step in forming a public safety training campus, Wukasch said. The campus will also include a permanent emergency operations center, which will allow
Liberty Hill
Williamson County ESD No. 4 purchased the building in June.
5-year-old building
Lincoln said the building—which housed Main Street Social, an indoor food court—will be used for administration in addition to some training activities, such as prevention coaching, pump testing and classes. The re department’s main station—located at 301 Main St.—is at capacity for hosting trainings, Lincoln said. Called the Main Street Campus for Williamson County ESD No. 4, the new building will have a classroom that can hold 80-90 people. Construction planning is expected to begin in September or October, Lincoln said, and additional
4-acre property $490 per square foot cost 11,000 square feet, roughly
COURTESY MAIN STREET SOCIAL
SOURCE: LIBERTY HILL FIRE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY IMPACT
Lincoln said moving forward the LHFD would like to have a dedicated training facility because a combined one would eventually be outgrown. “If [the city] doesn’t plan big enough to begin with, they will outgrow it rather fast,” he said.
details will be available around that time. Live burn training sessions will not take place at the new building, Lincoln said. The depart- ment has plans to place a burn building at a future re station.
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