The Schaumburg City Council plans to purchase an office building at 1000 Woodfield Road for $5.45 million to serve as a temporary community center and eventually a new police station. The current municipal center at 101 Schaumburg Court will be demolished to make way for a new community center on the same site. The current police station at 1000 W. Schaumburg Road will be demolished to make way for a new police station at the Woodfield Road location. The office building will serve as a temporary community center until the new one is built. The project is expected to be completed by late 2026.The Schaumburg City Council plans to purchase an office building at 1000 Woodfield Road for $5.45 million to serve as a temporary community center and eventually a new police station. The current municipal center at 101 Schaumburg Court will be demolished to make way for a new community center on the same site. The current police station at 1000 W. Schaumburg Road will be demolished to make way for a new police station at the Woodfield Road location. The office building will serve as a temporary community center until the new one is built. The project is expected to be completed by late 2026.
The approximately 100,000-square-foot office building at 1000 Woodfield Road in Schaumburg will be used as a temporary community center while the current building is rebuilt and then becomes the site of the next Schaumburg Police Department.
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Schaumburg city officials plan Tuesday to approve the purchase of an office building near Woodfield Mall that will serve as a temporary community center and then as the site for a new police station.
The property at 1000 Woodfield Road will cost the village $5.45 million, with a closing date of July 31, said Allison Albrecht, Schaumburg’s communications director.
According to Mayor Tom Dailly, the repurposing will remove approximately 100,000 square feet of largely vacant office space from the market.
The nearly empty office building at 1000 Woodfield Road in Schaumburg will be converted into a temporary community center next year, before being demolished to make way for the town’s next police station.
Brian Hill/[email protected]
Work at the 51-year-old Robert O. Atcher Municipal Center, 101 Schaumburg Court, is expected to move to the office building in the spring or summer of 2025, allowing the town hall to be demolished.
Albrecht said construction of a replacement building on the same site is expected to be completed by late 2026.
The office building would then be demolished to make way for the construction of a replacement 49-year-old police station at 1000 W. Schaumburg Road. A specific time frame for that construction has not yet been determined, Albrecht said.
“Research into both buildings has shown that the facilities are too small and do not meet the needs of current and future village activities,” she said.
Although it was decided last September that the current location was the best place for a new community centre, discussions about a new police station have continued this year, Dailly said.
Three alternatives emerged: remain at the current location; move to the eastern edge of the current municipal campus, where it borders Plum Grove Road; or move to Woodfield.
Schaumburg officials prefer a centrally located site at 1000 Woodfield Road, near Woodfield Mall, for a new police station. It would replace the station at 1000 W. Schaumburg Road, which has been in use since the mid-1970s.
Brian Hill/[email protected]
“We always thought it would be wise to move the police station closer to downtown Schaumburg, so to speak,” Dailly said. “I like the location. Of all the potential locations in the Woodfield area, this is a good one.”
While the location is central, it will not be too prominent in the commercial district, he added.
Trustees have already commissioned designs for new buildings from Williams Architects of Itasca. The plans cost $3.7 million for the police station and $1.8 million for the community center.
Construction management services for the two projects have been contracted to Camosy Construction of Zion for a total of $157,104.
It is not yet known whether the construction of the new community center will impact the traditional location of Schaumburg’s annual Septemberfest on community grounds during the Labor Day weekends of 2025 and 2026.
The hope is that the festival can remain there, but the usual layout may need to be adjusted due to the construction work, Albrecht said.
The Robert O. Atcher Municipal Center in Schaumburg at 101 Schaumburg Court opened in 1973 and will last be fully operational in 2024. A new community center will then be built on the same site.
Eric Peterson/[email protected], 2017
One of the decisions not yet made is whether the honorary names of the old buildings will be retained on the replacement buildings, Dailly said.
The Atcher Municipal Center is named for the town’s influential second mayor who had a hand in its design and worked there personally. Russ Parker Hall inside, where board and committee meetings are held, honors a longtime chairman of the zoning board of appeals.
Schaumburg leaders want to replace the town’s 49-year-old police station at 1000 W. Schaumburg Road with a new building at 1000 Woodfield Road.
Eric Peterson/[email protected], 2015
The Martin J. Conroy Police Center’s namesake was the town’s first police chief, who served for six years after it was built. The fate of the site once the police department relocates has not yet been decided, Dailly added.
