Good afternoon and welcome to the Hampton City Council work session.

Uh Madam Clerk, will you call the role, please?

Councilman Bowman.

Present.

Vice Mayor Brown.

Here.

Councilwoman Campbell.

Present.

Councilwoman Fairby.

Present.

Councilwoman Harper, present.

Councilwoman Muggler, present.

Mayor Gray.

Present.

And we have a presentation this afternoon.

So I'm going to ask the city manager to uh introduce that presentation.

Number one.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor and Council members.

As we move past the budget adoption and into our summer work session agendas, you'll start to see us bring some media topics for you that will take a bit more time and discussion.

The first one up this month is on the process of adaptive reuse or what we want to do now that the WIF fire station has relocated.

As our chief economic and community development officer Leonard Sledge will share, we did have a master plan done many years ago.

It's a bit dated, and it had called for one potential pathway forward, but part of that really resulted from the existence of the WITH Elementary School.

And the WITH Elementary School has since closed and been adaptively reused as a beautiful apartment building.

And so some of the original assumptions that were embedded in what would happen when the fire station closed are no longer valid.

And so we wanted to talk with you all about what you might want to do in terms of figuring out what we do now.

Do we keep the building and try to adaptively reuse it, preserving the history, or do we move forward with some of the ideas that were embedded in the original master plan, or do we do something else altogether?

So with that, as um a backdrop, I'm pleased to have Leonard Sledge walk you through the presentation again.

This is really designed at the end of the presentation to be more conversational for you all so that you can think through what are the next steps you'd like to see us as staff, you and the community do together to properly uh move forward with the old fire station building.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

Good afternoon, Mayor Gray, Vice Mayor Brown, distinguished members of Hampton City Council, City Attorney Sidnore, and City Clerk Ms.

Glass.

Uh again, good afternoon.

Uh, we'd like to share with you again to the city manager's point options for the current old WIF Fire Station.

And so it's the adaptive reuse of the building that previously served as the WIF Fire Station on Kickatan Road from 1944 to 1925.

There are three parcels that make up the WIF Fire Station site.

It's a triangular uh shaped site that sits at the bend of in the road and in the WIF area on Kikatan.

The site is approximately 1.11 acres with an existing 7,856 square foot structure and surface parking.

This map gives an aerial overview of the location of the WIF fire station.

You will see it sits next to the WIF pool and ball fields and on Victor on Kikatan Road and a short block from Victoria Boulevard.

These images show the exterior of the building on all four sides.

It speaks to the relocated fire station and a traffic circle being constructed.

We know that we now have the beautiful new fire station on Pembroke, which effectively serves the greater width community.

One thing that has not materialized in our capital improvement plan and construction projects is that traffic circle.

The master plan also calls for allowing the grounds around the WIP elementary school to expand, allowing for the construction again of the new traffic circle or traffic square, enhance the aesthetics of the corridor while providing an additional opportunity to publicly celebrate the history and culture of the neighborhood.

And also to the city manager's point, since the adoption of the master plan, the school site, the school has closed, the property has been transferred to private ownership and adaptively reused as multifamily as a multifamily residential project, unique in nature.

And so options for city council to consider.

One to implement the recommendations in the 2005 Kikatan Road Corridor Master Plan.

There's also the option of demolishing the existing building and the asphalt and preserving the site as green space on Kikatan Road, or three, we could issue a request for interest or request for proposals for the adaptive reuse of the building and the site.

In terms of adaptive reuse, communities similar to Hampton, large and small across the country have adaptively reuse older firehouses.

Hampton has previously worked with the developer to successfully adaptively reuse an older sh older shuttered building in alignment with our master plan, and that specifically is the National Guard Armory.

It's reuse as the Vanguard brew hub and distillery, a great successful project in Hampton's CAP.

If adaptive reuse of the building is desired, staff would issue a request for interest, request for proposals by no later than August 31st of 2026.

And evaluation criteria may include the following: alignment with the city master plan and policies, public benefit and economic impact, qualifications and experience of the development team, the design quality, the financial feasibility, and the demonstrated capacity of the developer to deliver the project, the proposed purchase price and long-term return to the city of Hampton, a realistic development schedule, and also sustainability and environmentally conscious design.

And so the decision point for City Council, option A, would you like for us to pursue implementation of the 2005 Kikatan Road Corridor Master Plan?

Option B, would you like for us to pursue demolition of the building and preservation of the site as green space, or option C, issuing the request for interest, request for proposals for the adaptive reuse of the building and site.

And that concludes our presentation.

I would like to also extend a thank you to Mr.

Travis Rash, who was previously in the Department of Economic Development and now is on our community development team.