2 new fire stations coming to northeast Gwinnett

LAWRENCEVILLE - Construction is set to begin soon on two new fire stations in Gwinnett County.

Fire Station 18 will soon relocate to a bigger facility, and new Fire Station 29 will be built in northeast Gwinnett under a $4.7 million construction contract approved Tuesday by the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners.

Both stations will be built by low bidder, C.P. Richards Construction Co. Inc., and paid for with funds from the 2005 SPLOST program. Richards Construction recently completed the new Station 1 in Norcross.

Station 18 will be located on four acres at the corner of Mineral Springs Road and Hog Mountain Road in the growing Hamilton Mill area. It will be a three-bay station with 12,800 square feet. It will replace the current smaller station on Braselton Highway.

Further north, Station 29 will be at 2800 Thompson Mill Road, just east of Sardis Church Road. The two-bay station with 8,600 square feet will occupy a five-acre site.

"These new stations will improve fire and emergency personnel's response time and ability to respond to multiple events in the rapidly growing outer corner of the county," District 4 Commissioner Kevin Kenerly said.

Construction will begin soon and take about a year.