2026 Facilities Master Plan approved by City Council

Published on February 19, 2026

To support Powell’s continued growth and expansion of City services, City officials are planning what additional staffing, roadway improvements and facilities upgrades will be needed in coming years. A part of this effort, the Downtown Powell/Village Green Master Plan recently concluded its first phase, collecting feedback from the community about how the Village Green Park space should be used to enhance downtown.

Building on these recommendations, City officials worked with a consultant team led by Champlin | EOP Architecture who drafted the 2026 Facilities Master Plan, which highlights what facilities maintenance and changes could be made in the coming years. Recently approved by City Council, the plan will guide efforts to ensure City facilities grow alongside expanding services.

Champlin | EOP Architecture, MKSK, Korda/Nemeth Engineering and The Klinger’s Group conducted on-site facilities reviews of the Municipal Building, the Adventure Park Building and the Lechler Building. Staff were also surveyed and interviewed about what changes would help improve the City’s service to the public.

After reviews and interviews, the cohort recommends potentially constructing new facilities in place of the current buildings to accommodate the increasing number of staff, a lack of current storage and meeting spaces and moving departments nearer to related departments. The findings show that the probable cost of maintenance and improvements to current buildings would outweigh the probable cost of new construction.

Some plan recommendations are listed below; read the full Facilities Master Plan here(PDF, 8MB).

Municipal Building – 47 Hall Street

In accordance with the Downtown Powell/Village Green Master Plan, the Municipal Building is suggested to move from the Village Green site to a more central location to provide a one-stop shop for the public to access City services. The new building would be laid out to have overlapping departments near each other; the police station would also be separated from the municipal offices with a hard boundary or in its own building to increase the station’s operational efficiency.

Adventure Park Building - 260 Village Park Drive

This facility houses the Parks and Recreation and Public Service departments and it is recommended to be rebuilt to emphasize the public-facing nature of Parks and Recreation with the addition of a community center while increasing the storage capacity for the Public Service department, specifically for larger salt dome and brine-making stations. The community center would also include a drop-off canopy to facilitate programs.

Lechler Building - 453 Murphy Parkway

The plan suggests consolidating the storage of this facility to the proposed new Parks and Recreation and Public Service complex to streamline storage as the current location is far from the main building.