Finished Roseville Fire Station Renovations Offer Residing Firefighters Modern Comforts
Posted on December 3, 2025
Work is completed on the City of Roseville’s newly renovated 7,000-square-foot Fire Station No. 2 (South), located at 17644 Frazho Road in Roseville. Construction on the project started in January 2025 and concluded in October 2025. The $1.9 million project received funding from a bond voters approved in November 2023.
AEW Project Manager/Senior Project Architect Brandy L. Chirco, RA, was responsible for the fire station’s design and construction administration. She said the renovation project started with a needs assessment to figure out what the building — originally constructed in the 1960s — required for today’s fire station standards and uses.
“The dorm is where the firefighters sleep,” Chirco said. “They work 24-hour shifts for three days. So, they stay at the fire station. They live there; they eat there; they sleep there. So initially, the dorm room was just one open room with a bunch of beds in it. In the ’60s, they had all male firefighters. Now they have male and female firefighters.”
Roseville Fire Chief Keith Jacobs said he believes that the Roseville Fire Department is among the communities with the highest percentage of female firefighters in Macomb County. He said his department’s first female firefighter had to share bathrooms with the men, and once the department hired two more female firefighters, it designated a space for a female locker room. But even then, they sometimes previously had to wait to use the bathrooms or the showers.
“We have five women that work for us now,” Jacobs said. “The trend in the fire service is more women firefighters. We’re seeing more applicants than we’ve ever had.”
As a result, it was essential to address that issue when reimagining the dorms, restrooms, and locker rooms. The shared dorm space was replaced with individual dorm rooms. The women’s restrooms gained an extra toilet, and the women’s locker room is now more spacious and has multiple shower units.
Jacobs said he believes that AEW’s renovations to Fire Station No. 2 will be “very comfortable” for five female firefighters, perfect for eight, and could even handle up to 10.
“It’s overdue and well planned for,” he said.
In addition to the dorm renovations, AEW’s architectural redesign renovated the dispatch area and expanded the fire station’s kitchen and dayroom, the latter of which functions like a living room.
“For fire stations that are manned 24/7, it gives them a place to decompress from dealing with emergencies, fire and medical,” Chirco said. “One of the other challenges was that the fire station is on a corner, so there’s only so far that you could add. So, we really wanted to make those extra square feet count.”
She added that the architects also dealt with some structural issues, such as an eastern exterior wall cracking and settling. The AEW team “basically tore out the majority of the exterior wall” and replaced it, she said. In the process, AEW also took the opportunity to expand the building, leading to a larger dayroom and kitchen for the firefighters.
The refurbished fire station has electrical and HVAC upgrades as well as new interior finishes. AEW’s plan also replaced all sanitary plumbing due to concerns that it could be leaking and causing settlement or soil loss. AEW arranged an investigation that discovered poor soil conditions, leading to removal and replacement of that soil with engineered fill.
Roseville City Manager Ryan Monroe said Mayor Robert Taylor and the City Council are very appreciative that the residents passed the city facilities bond proposal.
“This bond initiative, which did not increase the tax rate for our residents, allows us to address many of our infrastructure needs,” Monroe said. “This will provide excellent public services for our residents while maintaining financial stability for the municipality.”
Monroe said he was pleased to see all the meetings and planning come to fruition with the work on Fire Station
No. 2, and he added that “this is only one of many projects underway.”
“This funding is allowing us to renovate older buildings like Fire Station #2,” Monroe said. “This will provide a
state-of-the-art facility for our firefighters to provide fire and advanced life support EMS to our residents now
and for many decades to come.”
Now that the renovations are done, Fire Station No. 2 is better equipped to accommodate firefighters and
other staff as they work shifts around the clock to keep the community safe.
Besides Fire Station No. 2, AEW is also spearheading renovations to Roseville’s Fire Station No. 1 (North).