The new City Hall will consolidate most of the city’s administrative offices and city services.
news releaseThe complex also will include a center with five conference rooms on the ground level and four additional conference rooms on the top floor, and a large public plaza will serve as a place for outdoor gatherings, festivals and performances.
“We are creating not just a City Hall, but a gathering space the entire community will embrace,” Mayor George Fuller wrote in the news release. “The additional social and entertainment aspects of the district will offer yet another exciting place for residents to choose to live, dine, recreate, exchange ideas, and otherwise share memorable experiences.”
City Manager Paul Grimes said excitement for the complex is not just for the community, but also for the city’s 1,300 full-time employees and 350 part-time and seasonal employees. “This project fulfills a long-standing goal to develop a genuine City Hall, which brings together most of the city’s functional departments and helps reduce or eliminate inefficiencies of leasing space and commute time among various operating departments,” Grimes said.
In 2019, voters passed a $50 million bond proposition to fund the project. McKinney City Hall is currently a converted bank building constructed in the 1950s and a development services building from the 1960s.
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