TUCKER, Ga. — What goes up must go down, and as buildings age, sometimes you’ve got to knock them down and bury them.
In DeKalb County, a longstanding and vacant former Department of Public Health building was demolished to make way for new stations across the county.
The old DPH office off of Lawrenceville Highway in Tucker was torn down Friday.
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DeKalb officials said the building first opened in 1955.
Almost 70 years later, the county’s fire needs mean a change is in the air.
To that end, the station was bulldozed and the county will build five new fire stations with SPLOST funding to meet the needs of county residents.
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Officials said $8.2 million of SPLOST 1 funding will be used to build the second of five new stations, Fire Station No. 5.
The facility is expected to be 15,576 square feet, with construction finished in 2026.
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