New fire hall property purchased by city [Video]

The property for the new Windsor Fire & Rescue Services headquarters has been purchased by the City of Windsor.

Windsor mayor Drew Dilkens told AM800’s The Morning Drive Tuesday that the city has purchased the former Morris Sutton Funeral Home property at the corner of Giles Boulevard and Goyeau Street.

Dilkens says the plan is to construct a new fire station #1 on the site.

He says the city needs a lot of money to be able to move forward with a new fire hall, so construction will not begin for a while.

“But when that land became available for sale, the chief and the staff at Windsor Fire & Rescue ran the numbers, looked at the timing and the location and placement of a new fire hall #1 and they determined that, allows them to respond appropriately and so we put an offer in, that offer was accepted and …