Dakota County Transportation Facility was designed as a new facility in Empire Township:

81,450 square feet
Completion in 2002
Construction cost: $7,200,000

The project included planning and design of all site amenities and structures.  The building includes vehicle storage, twin vehicle wash bays, shops, engineering space, storage, staff areas, lockers, lunchroom, offices, welding bays and a state-of-the-art maintenance area.  The building consists of tilt-up precast wall panels at all of the vehicle areas, with long span steel trusses, and a metal panel system at the office and operations areas.  This project was designed to meet Dakota County's Sustainable Design Standards.  The maintenance area was designed for servicing everything from Sheriff's cars to the largest of the county's trucks.  During the schematic design phase the Mechanics were offered a variety of maintenance configurations.  They selected a configuration with maintenance attached to vehicle storage but without internal drive lane connections.