Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
Have a buck to spare? You can be the proud owner of a historic fire station in Fremont, CA.
But if you're burning to buy, you'd better have a plan in place.
“We are offering the building, not the land,” says Shaivali Desai, director at SiliconSage Builders, the developer who plans to erect housing on the land currently occupied by the station.
The buyer “can move it off the site, and place it on any other land that they may own.”
The city agreed to sell the fire station to SiliconSage as long as the developers made an attempt to sell the old station before demolishing it to make way for a mixed-use development, which will include ground-floor retail space, apartments, and townhouses.
“The site does need to be cleared of all existing buildings, including the former Centerville Fire Station, in order to construct the development,” Fremont City Associate Planner Aki Honda Snelling said in an email.
“In conjunction with the City’s approval of the development project, the City approved demolition of the former fire station, unless the fire station could be moved off-site.”
The city agreed the price would be set at a single dollar with the buyer responsible for all removal costs.
The assessment also notes it's “the city’s second oldest station and a civic landmark in the historic town center of Centerville.”
But the '50s-era building, which was deemed seismically unsound and therefore decommissioned in 2008, could cost upward of $500,000 to move.
Ref: Property Report
