This Thursday at 4:00p Palmetto Bay will hold a ground-breaking ceremony for its brand new $3.7M Village Hall to be built in the Franjo Triangle Island commercial district.
The Village Hall was designed and constructed because the currently leased space of 8,000 square feet was too small, so Flinn decided to build a larger Village Hall. When complete in Q4 2010, the new 24,500-square-foot hall will be the centerpiece for Palmetto Bay’s “green” initiatives. The building will be Florida’s first city hall to be built LEED “Gold-Certified.” There are even plans to extend the “greening” of the building to meet “Platinum Certification”. If “Platinum is met, it means the building will be self-sustaining.
Mayor Eugene Flinn explains, “We want to get it to be a $50,000 savings [a year] on the utility bill. It’s about quality construction.” In this artist rendering, you can see the open and modern floor plan to be implemented.
The Village Hall will house the Police Department, all facets of the Palmetto Bay government and host the town hall meetings.