Grandview Heights Municipal Complex
The City of Grandview Heights new facility replaces a century old facility that no longer served the community.
In 2021, Mull & Weithman Architects teamed with the Philadelphia, PA based architecture firm Erdy McHenry to conduct a feasibility study for the City of Grandview Heights. The Phase I study proposed a new, municipal complex to support the City’s current and future anticipated needs while building on the community’s rich civic history. Mull & Weithman’s role in this study was to serve as the Public Safety Design Consultant, ensuring that the operational and functional needs of the Division of Fire and Division of Police were met.
The site of the proposed municipal complex is an existing City-owned property at the Southern edge of the City which is seen as a gateway into the community. The proposed facility will provide a strong civic presence to the main corridor of the community while encouraging public interaction at the site with flexible green spaces and by providing enhanced connections to existing public spaces nearby.
The facility itself will balance the need for public interaction with the required security levels of each of the user groups which include City Administration, the Division of Fire, and the Division of Police. When the study was completed, the overall plan proposed a multi-phased project including the demolition of structures currently located on the site, the construction of a new, 39,000 sf facility to support the user groups, and ultimately the renovation of the existing historic fire station and City Administration facilities to serve the public in other uses.
The residents of Grandview Heights overwhelmingly supported a November 2022 ballot issue to fund the construction of the project and opened in September 2025.
Renderings courtesy of Erdy McHenry Architects
