{"id":694329,"date":"2026-05-26T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694329\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:05:08","slug":"1-4m-contract-for-new-fleetwood-firehall-work-approved-by-surrey-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694329\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.4M contract for new Fleetwood firehall work approved by Surrey council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              $1.4M contract for new Fleetwood firehall work approved by Surrey council<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 10:30 pm Monday, May 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Surrey council approved a $1,425,810.75 contract for Chandos Construction to provide \u201cprogressive design-build pre-construction services\u201d related to relocating and expanding Fleetwood Fire Hall 6.<\/p>\n<p>It will be at 9261 and 9271 152 Street and 9258 and 9278 151A Street, with a spending limit set at $1,650,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a really cool one,\u201d Mayor Brenda Locke said of the project.<\/p>\n<p>City manager Rob Costanzo noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/corporate-reports\/CR_2026-R108.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">corporate report<\/a> that came before council May 25 that the current Fire Hall 6, at 9040 152 street, opened in April 1961 near the intersection of Fraser Highway and 152 Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe existing hall is no longer adequate to serve the surrounding community and is to be demolished to facilitate future development along the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain line,\u201d Costanzo said.<\/p>\n<p>The new Surrey Fire Services hall will be <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/03\/09\/land-cleared-for-30m-replacement-fire-hall-in-fleetwood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">four times the size<\/a> of the one it will replace three blocks south, near Fraser Highway.<\/p>\n<p>The capital cost is $30 million for the replacement fire hall, which will be around 23,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is expected to start next year and be completed in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Bains said the new fire hall will enhance emergency response capacity to \u201cmeet the growing demands of the community and it\u2019s great to see. This is a much-needed investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 with file from Tom Zillich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"$1.4M contract for new Fleetwood firehall work approved by Surrey council Published 10:30 pm Monday, May 25, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-694329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}