The plan and price tag for the new Swain Station has been disclosed.

After the Western Salisbury Volunteer Fire Company station, 950 S. Ott St., is demolished, the new two-story station will be constructed from March to October 2023 at a cost of $3.1 million.

Western has raised approximately $400,000 for the Swain project. Western is to launch its 2022 donation drive.

Salisbury Township is being asked to finance approximately $2.7 million of the Swain project with a 30-year loan at 4 percent interest for an annual cost of approximately $154,000.

“We can run the numbers and see what we can do,” Salisbury Township Director of Finance Paul Ziegenfus said in the May 12 commissioners’ workshop discussion. “I think we can make this work.”

Funding or grants, if secured, could reduce the cost to the township.

“I don’t know to what extent we can get funding,” Salisbury Township Manager Cathy Bonaskiewich said.

Western firefighters will run out of the Eisenhower Station, 3425 Eisenhower Ave., during demolition, construction and until the opening of the new Swain Station. Plans are to sell the Eisenhower Station once the new Swain Station is operational.

Proceeds from the sale of the Eisenhower property would go to the township.

Western Salisbury safety officer, board of directors member and trustee Jerry Royer made the Swain Station project presentation during the May 12 township commissioners’ workshop of the construction plan by Ronald Jerdon, president, Jerdon Construction Services, LLC, Allentown. Also present was Western Salisbury Fire Chief Joshua Wells and several Western firefighters.

“It’s a prefabricated metal building,” Jerdon said.

An artist’s rendering of the facade and a diagram of the 11,343-square-foot Swain Station was displayed.

The new station can accommodate four parallel-parked fire engines. There will be a 30-by-20 training room, first-floor decontamination area, two bathrooms, shower, washing machine, office, gym, day room and an American with Disabilities Act compliant elevator.

Crucial to getting the project back on track was resolving a clause in the deed for an agreement between the township, represented by Salisbury Township Solicitor Attorney John W. Ashley, Western and The Swain School, which donated the land for the fire station.

The Swain Station project needs three areas to be approved by commissioners. A request for approval of the Subdivision and Land Development Plan for the Swain Project, the deed for the Swain property and a loan guarantee may be on the agenda of the next commissioners’ meeting, 7:30 p.m. May 26, in the township municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave.

The Swain Station project plan received approval from the township zoning hearing board April 13 and was recommended to commissioners for approval by the township planning commission April 27.

“We’re very grateful that you have agreed to help us with this project,” John Kelly Jr., a Western Salisbury board of directors member, trustee and life member said to township commissioners and officials.