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Marco Island City Council on Monday unanimously approved documents that estimate it will cost the city approximately $22.9 million to replace Fire Station 50 and renovate Veterans Community Park. The city would spend $12.5 million to replace the fire station with a new station and an emergency center, and $10.4 million to renovate the park. The new fire station will be approximately 22,366 square feet with administrative offices, meeting rooms, sleeping quarters and bays for the equipment, according to a city staff report. Miguel Carballo, fleet and facilities manager with the city, said the fire station and emergency center will include a fueling station, the IT department, a community training center and a training tower. The project will also include renovating pavement and landscaping across the City Hall campus. ....
Marco Eagle Marco Island City Council postponed on Monday the approval of the plan for a $8.8 million project that includes building a 32-foot star-shaped bandshell at Veterans Community Park. City Council Chairman Jared Grifoni said councilors voted unanimously to continue the discussion on April 19 because the total amount that the city is expected to pay for the project was not available. City Council selected a construction manager at risk method so the citizens would know exactly how much the project was going to cost. And if there was any overruns in that cost, that would be (paid) by the contractor and not the taxpayers, Grifoni said Tuesday. ....
Marco Island Yacht Club will build more than two dozen slips to harbor 50- to 125-foot-long luxury yachts after City Council unanimously passed two resolutions Monday approving the club s requests. There is a very large demand in Southwest Florida for these boats and currently there is not a lot of slips available for them on the island, said Joshua Maxwell, chief engineer with Turrell, Hall & Associates. David Everitt, chairman of the board of directors of the club, said Wednesday the council s resolutions and other federal, state and local permits acquired by the club allows them to start building the marina. ....