project: SUWANEE CITY HALL PROGRAMMING
date: 2005
location: SUWANEE, GA
client: CITY OF SUWANEE
contact: MARVIN ALLEN, CITY MANAGER
Urban Collage, Inc. assisted the City of Suwanee, Georgia by conducting a utilization study and needs assessment for the City’s administrative and police / court facilities. The three month study included a review of existing facilities, a series of programming interviews and several task force meetings to quantify and plan for future space needs. The approved plan calls for 40,000 square feet of new and renovated administrative space including a New City Hall, renovation of the existing City Hall building to accommodate the City’s growing police department and modification of the existing municipal court facility to improve staff efficiency and safety.
Planning for the new facilities included site strategies to integrate the New City Hall with new development along the edge of Town Center Park, space programming for the construction of a 20,000 SF facility with potential expansion to 30,000 SF, identification of needed adjacencies, architectural blocking diagrams and an outline of next steps to begin design of the new facility including preliminary schedules and budgets.
The new City Hall was recently completed and the Police Department has moved into the old City Hall.
