Dayton starts process to remodel City Hall

Project expected to take place in phases over several years.

City has begun soliciting firms for the project, which is expected to take place in phases over multiple years.

Dayton is looking for firms to remodel the 110-year-old City Hall.

The facility at 101 W. Third St., which originally opened as a YMCA in 1908, is home to about 200 employees, or almost 10 percent of the city’s workforce.

The remodeling project is expected to take place in phases over several years. City Hall, which the city acquired around 1940, consists of a six-story structure and a two-story structure, which combined have about 152,000 square feet of space.

The city says it wants to “drastically” change the sixth floor to have a more open work-space environment, according to the city’s request for proposals.

The floor, which has 34 offices and six storage rooms, houses about half of the department of planning and community development.

The city also proposes to create open workstations on the fourth floor, which is home to the division of management and budget, the department of economic development and some revenue administration staff.

About half of the economic development’s 20 offices are vacant. The city says the fourthfloor remodeling work will need to occur in two to three phases.

The city also proposes making the first-floor public entrance on North Ludlow Street compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The city says it wants to build a new call center on the first floor.

The city also wants to remodel the two-story Sunrise Center on the 1300 block of East Fifth Street.

The city wants to use the second floor for offices and medical services related to its off-site medical clinic. The first floor is expected to house four city departments or divisions.