Sites Being Considered for a new police and Fire station. Click here for the full presentation.

By Carol Britton Meyer

The Hull Redevelopment Authority property is one of the two top sites for a proposed new public safety building – as mentioned by HRA members at a January meeting – along with the current town hall location.

SITE SIGHTS: A consultant presented a range of options for a new public safety building, including replacing town hall (left) and locating it on the HRA land (right). In the center is an option for a redesigned substation at the corner of A Street and Nantasket Avenue. Click here for the full presentation.

“The HRA site has not been selected as the recommended location but as one of the more viable options,” Town Manager Jennifer Constable told the select board Wednesday night.

Both the current fire and police department buildings are in deteriorating condition, and town meeting voters in 2024 appropriated $150,000 to hire a consultant to study alternatives. Response times are a key consideration in the location selection as well as the suitability and ownership of the sites, representatives of the KBA architectural firm said. The next step is the community engagement process, which is expected to begin in late February.

Click here for the consultant’s presentation to the select board on February 11, 2026

The select board approved the creation of a public safety building committee, consisting of nine members.

“We’re looking for individuals with flood-plain management or real estate experience or with a finance background to apply and work with KBA and our internal team to prioritize the potential locations,” Constable said.

The building committee will ultimately recommend a final site. Voters will have the final say at a future town meeting.

Members will include police and fire department representatives, a town manager designee, a member each of the select board and advisory board, and four residents.

Gregory Joynt, principal/architect for KBA Architects, provided an update about the joint public safety facility feasibility study and site selection options during a well-attended three-hour select board meeting this week.

The process if the project is ultimately approved by town meeting would take a number of years to complete, with the timeline starting last July.

Option one calls for a new combined police and fire station at 253 Atlantic Ave., where town hall is located but will become vacant when offices move to the Memorial School, with a new fire substation at 671 Nantasket Ave. where the Central Fire Station is currently situated; the second for a new combined facility at 253 Nantasket Ave. and a new fire substation at 767 Nantasket Ave. (the corner of N Street and Nantasket Avenue, the site purchased by the town as a potential location for a new library); and a new combined facility at in the center section of the HRA property (listed as 5 Water Street in the report) and a new fire substation at 671 Nantasket Ave. Most of the property is in the flood plain.

SIX OPTIONS FOR A NEW PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING WERE PRESENTED TO THE SELECT BOARD. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL PRESENTATION.

KBA’s assessments of every town-owned parcel and a few private ones, identify geographical deficiencies and operational inefficiencies in each of the sites to provide a baseline understanding of operational requirements.

Other sites that were considered include the Council on Aging on Samoset Avenue, public works garage at West Corner, land next to the Jacobs School, the high school, Hull Municipal Light Plant, the middle school, sewer department, the northern section of the HRA land at the corner of Samoset Avenue and Phipps Street, the Kenberma playground (erroneously listed as Monument Square in the report), and the Village Fire Station, among others.

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