City of Greenville - Master Plan

As one of the fastest growing cities in the state of South Carolina, the facility master plan addresses public facility needs using planning time frames of five and 10 years.  Heery performed a series of data collection activities such as department interviews, and facility condition assessments to ascertain the true space needs requirements and suitability of existing facilities to meet those requirements over the next 10 years.

The initial project schedule established a six-month process for data collection, evaluation, review with an internal project team, and reporting.  Program surveys and interviews were conducted with each department to determine current and future space requirements.  Simultaneously, facility condition assessments were completed through comprehensive field surveys by Heerys architectural and engineering team.  Assessment reports were developed providing a profile of each building, a list of deficiencies, cost and priorities associated with those deficiencies, and a narrative of primary architectural features and engineering infrastructure.

The results of this effort affirmed Greenvilles notion that its Public Works and Parks & Recreation divisions should be consolidated at a new operations center.  This was shown to reduce operational costs while providing space needs through 2013. The space needs analysis revealed that the police department is overcrowded in space it shares at a county law enforcement center.  The municipal courts met space needs through 2007 but after that time would need new space.  The Facility Master Plan provided an implementation plan that includes a new justice center to accommodate consolidation of police and municipal courts based on space requirements and adjacency needs.  The last affirmation for Greenville was that the current city hall facility is underutilized, and with a bit of updating, could adequately accommodate consolidation of administrative functions from several ancillary facilities and support space needs through 2013.