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Emerick Construction is seeking bids from subcontractors for work on a new police station in Lincoln City.

The new 18,000-square-foot law enforcement facility will be built with structural steel, cross-laminated timber, a precast concrete tile roof and wall cladding. Associated civil, landscaping and site improvements also are planned.

Other key members of the project team include FFA Architecture and Interiors and KPFF Consulting Engineers.

The city intends to use the new station mainly for office and administrative use, but there also will be storage space, a sally port for police vehicles and four temporary holding cells in which to hold criminal suspects prior to release or transport to the county jail in Newport.

Construction will take place on two tax lots totaling 4.26 acres adjacent to Lincoln City’s existing police station. Operations in that facility will continue unabated during construction of the new building.

The project cost started at $8 million, but eventually grew to $14.5 million. The City Council, however, agreed last spring to budget only $10.5 million for the project. Then the council was forced to come back in July to approve an additional $2 million in funding. Original plans called for a building holding more than 20,000 square feet, but substantial floor space was trimmed to save money.

A pre-bid meeting to discuss the project and view site conditions has been scheduled for 10 a.m. on Oct. 9, starting at City Hall, Room 301. Following that meeting, all bids for work must be submitted by 2 p.m. on Oct. 17.

The existing two-story police station is nearly 40 years old and has outdated technology. The building has been remodeled at least four times, but still has just 8,700 square feet of floor space. It also sits partly on a concrete pad and partly on concrete pilings. The new station will be much larger, of course, but also substantially more seismically reinforced. State law requires that all public safety facilities undergo seismic retrofits by 2022, which was just one impetus for the city to pursue the project at this time.

After the new station is built, the old station will remain unoccupied for the time being, because demolition was deemed too costly to perform immediately.

Questions about the project can be directed to Emerick Construction project manager Matt Winkler at: 503-777-5531 or [email protected].

Bid documents are available to download at: .