Attachment A - Western City Campus and FS 3 Overview

Attachment A: Western City Campus and Fire Station 3 Overview Western City Campus

In 2015, the city purchased the Alpine Balsam site, which was the location of the former Boulder Community Health Hospital. The city purchased the site, now called the Western City Campus (WCC), to create a new centralized location for several city customer service functions and staff offices. Currently, these services are scattered across the community making it difficult to navigate and support. By consolidating many services in one central location, this will create a better space for public engagement and provide the community with a consistent, reliable destination for accessing city services. In addition, the consolidation of city services will greatly reduce energy use within the city’s building portfolio and contribute towards the city’s environmental sustainability. Consolidation of services also helps the city achieve efficiencies through more effective use of physical space, reductions in capital renewal efforts, and economy in operations and maintenance. This consolidation of buildings will help the city avoid $16M+-$22M in unfunded liability from buildings we are vacating in first ten years. Many of the city’s current buildings are in a state of disrepair and require substantial investment to maintain. The cost of repairing and continuing to chase these critical failures is comparable to the upfront costs of the WCC and over it’s lifespan, consolidating staff to this one location will result in a lowest Total Cost of Ownership TCO. In the city’s current buildings, we cannot meet our climate action goals to electrify buildings because our capital and emergency funding is spent on fixing the failing infrastructure. The new WCC is a key component of the Facilities Plan, which will incorporate city values such as sustainability, financial responsibility, inclusivity and accessibility. As a first step in creating the campus, the city sustainably deconstructed the former hospital. Many of the

Attachment A: Western City Campus and Fire Station 3 Overview materials from the hospital were directly reused in other projects or recycled. Overall, 94% of all the building materials from the deconstruction of the hospital were diverted away from the landfill. The steel from the hospital was removed and reused in several city projects, including the new Fire Station 3. The city also renovated the Brenton Building in 2018, located on the WCC. The renovation of the Brenton Building was a full adaptive reuse of the building which included gutting the building and building back the envelope by adding additional insulation. Mechanical systems were upgraded to all electric systems. In the end this renovation made the Brenton Building 80% more energy efficient. The development of the WCC has continued to prioritize sustainability through adaptive reuse, preserving embodied carbon, sustainable deconstruction, and low-carbon redevelopment. Similar to the Brenton Building, the main building on the WCC (formerly a Medical Office Pavilion) will be renovated to become all-electric with a high performing building envelope. This meets the city’s climate goals. In addition, Colorado sourced timber is being used, which makes it the first large scale commercial project in the nation. The timber is a sustainable product in the building structure as well as an interior finish, which cuts down on additional materials and maintenance over time. All this assists the city in being a global leader in low carbon redevelopment and makes significant advances towards meeting the city’s climate goals.

Photo taken on 3.22.26 WCC construction site

Attachment A: Western City Campus and Fire Station 3 Overview

Fire Station 3 The original Fire Station 3 (1585 30th St) was outdated, inefficient, and undersized for modern firefighting needs. The building is also located in the High Hazard Flood Zone, which means the building is at significant risk during a flooding event, and the building can’t be significantly renovated which restricts investments to under 50% of the Current Replacement Value (CRV). Building a new First Station 3 and creating a Fire-Rescue headquarters was identified as a priority project and was partly funded by the Community, Culture, Resilience and Safety Tax. Relocation to this new building has allowed better service delivery to a significant part of the city that was not within a four-minute response time (industry standard) of any of our fire stations. This new station has improved response coverage to a rapidly growing portion of the city. In addition, this station has allowed for existing fire response resources to be repositioned and increase the efficiency of department operations while allowing for a potentially increased scope of emergency medical service (EMS) delivery. The design of new Fire Station 3 focuses on firefighter wellness, with features that reduce exposure to hazards, provide recovery spaces, and support long-term health. It also stands out for its innovative layout and strong community presence. The new Fire Station 3 is also a remarkable display of sustainability and helps to achieve the city’s energy goals, which will hopefully be achieved in future city buildings. Station 3 reused 22 tons of steel that was salvaged from the old Boulder Community Health Hospital site (Alpine & Broadway). The station is all-electric, and the roof was designed to maximize the use of photovoltaics panels. All stormwater that falls on the site is collected, treated, and allowed to percolate, with the green roof also reducing heat and unwanted glare. This building conforms with the Transit Village Area Plan, which guides the transformation of the Boulder Junction area into a dense, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly neighborhood. The building also follows the Form Based Code making it a role model for other buildings in the area. The Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan emphasizes the importance of city buildings being a pillar in the community and to date the new Fire Station 3 has earned many awards. Station 3 now

Attachment A: Western City Campus and Fire Station 3 Overview stands, not just as a local firehouse, but as a national model for how thoughtful design can improve public safety, firefighter health, and community sustainability.