New
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A new Union County Sheriff’s Office facility is being planned for the open land on County-Home Road just west of the county Joint Recreation District on County-Home Road, shown above at right. The building will sit between the City of Marysville’s Decker Station 271, shown at bottom-left and the Union County Engineer’s Operations Facility at the top-left. (Graphic submitted)

New $7M UCSO facility eyed

 

By Michael Williamson, Richwood Gazette

Union County is working on a new facility that will both expand and consolidate the various locations currently used by the sheriff’s office.

The deadline for architecture firms to submit a statement of qualifications to work on the project ended last week. Once a firm is selected, they will move onto the design phase.

“Basically we’re looking for resumes from firms, showing what types of projects they’ve worked on that might be similar to this and what their company does,” County Administrator Bill Narducci said. “Then we’ll put a team together to start reviewing the proposals.”

Narducci said the county is looking at an …

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