Progress 2020 A special issue from the publishers of
The new Maryville Public Safety building under construction at First and Vine streets is shown in late December and on Monday at left. Since the earlier photo was taken, the fire truck bay doors have been installed and work has continued. PHOTOS BY SKYE POURNAZARI THE FORUM
What’s Inside MPS facility................... A1 Agriland Fast Stop......... A2 Mosaic ........................ A2 Northwest Ag Center..... A3 Consolidated 911.......... A5 McDonalds................... A6 Leadership Maryville....... A8 South Main project...... A10 Maryville School District... B1 Ten Squared................. B2 Maryville Public Library.... B6
New Maryville Public Safety building nears completion New facility is ahead of schedule and under budget By GEOFFREY WOEHLK The Forum
MARYVILLE, Mo. — In the six years between the first designs and the afternoon when shovels finally met dirt, there might have been a few days when it looked to Maryville Public Safety Director Keith Wood like it might never happen. “Yeah,” Wood admitted last summer, standing in the spot where he planned to put his new desk. “Almost every day there for a while.” A year later — give or take a few months — and Wood will no
longer need to imagine the desk, or spend any more days worrying that a new, state-of-the-art combined facility for police and fire operations might not make it to reality. City officials, community members and state legislators celebrated the groundbreaking on the new facility in June, turning dirt on a much-needed project that will finally move police officers and firefighters into a building made from the ground up for them to use just up the road at the corner of Vine and First streets. See MPS, A4
City Manager Greg McDanel leads a tour of the new Maryville Public Safety Building in December. Council members and city employees saw the building while at about 50 percent construction. The construction phase is much further along now, estimated at an August completion.