Syracuse Fire Department plans to make part of furniture store into maintenance garage

Syracuse, N.Y. — Part of a massive furniture store on Syracuse’s South Side could soon become the city fire department’s maintenance facility.

The Syracuse Common Council approved a series of resolutions Monday authorizing an estimated $5.7 million project to turn a portion of the Dunk & Bright furniture complex on South Salina Street into the Syracuse Fire Department’s main garage.

The department needs a new facility for doing repairs on its fleet of more than 100 vehicles because the floor of its longtime maintenance garage partially collapsed in July, forcing the department to close the facility for safety reasons.

That garage, near the fire department’s training facility on State Fair Boulevard, was built in 1969 and not designed for the size of many of today’s larger fire apparatus