Manhattan, KS Fire Station No. 3

The Manhattan, KS Fire Station #3 was designed in cooperation with Anderson-Knight Architects. Stewart-Cooper-Newell Architects consulted as public safety design experts. We managed the early portions of the design in order for our experience to guide design in an appropriate direction from the beginning of the project.

The two bay station was a tight fit on the long and narrow site with zoning setback constraints on all sides of the site. The limited available footprint dictated a direction in the design of the station. The station provides a decon room, compressor room, tool room, EMS storage room, and a large mezzanine accessed directly off of the apparatus bays. Training tools are incorporated into the apparatus bays and mezzanine. The public spaces include a central lobby adjacent to a public restroom, community room, several offices, and an IT closet. A public restroom has access from the exterior of the building for the general public to use from the near by pedestrian walking path. The private spaces of the building include a day room, kitchen, six sleep rooms, three private bathrooms, exercise room, and laundry room.

This new fire station will provide an expanded network of public safety for the Manhattan, Kansas area.