Plano's City Council on Monday approved CORE Construction Services of Texas as construction manager for a new police training center, according to action notes the city posted to its online meeting record Tuesday. The minutes are still in draft form.
The contract is capped at $42 million, a figure that covers a $42,000 fee for work during design, the general conditions and construction itself. CORE will help plan the building and then act as general contractor under a guaranteed maximum price, a city staff memo says.
The center will replace the 21,904-square-foot police training facility at 4921 14th Street with a building of about 33,000 square feet designed by Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects. Plans call for cadet classrooms, an indoor tactical village, a gym and locker area, a classroom for the emergency vehicle driving course, a larger concrete pad for that course, and demolition of the old building.
Twelve firms responded when the city opened qualifications in June. CORE ranked first in both scoring rounds, and its proposed fee of about $3.18 million was lower than the $4.47 million from Sedalco, the runner-up, according to the purchasing summary.
Sign rewrite tabled
The council held a public hearing on the rewrite of the sign section of the zoning ordinance, then tabled it to its Jan. 11, 2027, meeting. A companion ordinance that would repeal the separate temporary-sign rules in the city code, which the rewrite would fold into zoning, was tabled to the same date. Staff had told the council the two items depend on each other.
Downtown land sale pulled
An item to sell 2.81 acres the city owns at the northwest corner of K Avenue and 15th Place for $850,000 was removed from the agenda. The land sits under the LINK at Plano, a 245-unit mixed-use complex built on city land the city leases out.
The buyer would have been CONTI Texas Organization, which was to keep public parking in the J Place garage open. The memo said the sale would have ended a ground lease that pays the city $67,678 a year.
