Lakeside Park, Kentucky

The new building’s modest project scope included reimagining all interior functions within the new building footprint and providing and fresh new working environment.

The City of Lakeside Park approached CT to provide a design vision for their small municipality facility that had a complex combination of physical building inefficiency and ADA legal exposure. The City had repurposed a residence donated in 1962 to create a makeshift city building. Over 50 years, it was added on and modified to the point where it had become functionally obsolete. Additionally, the Council Chambers were not ADA accessible, and a few times over the past few years, questions had arisen during council meetings as to the legality of such a condition.

CT’s first step was to provide the City with options of renovating vs. new construction to help them evaluate the best course of action. Utilizing CT’s cost estimates and advice, the City quickly determined that the existing building should be demolished and a new one re-built onsite with ADA accessibility. A building for the next 50 years.

The new building’s modest project scope included reimagining all interior functions within the new building footprint and providing and fresh new working environment.

New interior building spaces were designed to improve building circulation and be fully ADA compliant. The new facility has data and technology spaces, including a new isolated server room and a standby generator powered by natural gas for a power emergency.

The biggest challenge to this project was easing and resolving public concerns, keeping tight reigns on the construction budget, accounting for ADA compliance in all areas, and excluding obsolete city administrative functions from the previous setup.

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Services Involved

Architecture

Municipal Engineer

Project Management