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Plans to acquire more space for Warsaw city offices are proceeding, according to Mayor Ernest Wiggins.
While leaving the city's options open, Wiggins is looking closely at part of the old Zimmer building at 727 N. Detroit St. A portion of the building, owned by Tony Miller of Instrumedical Technologies Inc., already houses Instrumedical. The property is owned by Miller personally and not by his company.
"We're just looking at this point, and this building is just one of the possibilities," Wiggins said. "All we've done at this point is a walk-through with Tony Miller."
He added that the city will contract an engineering firm to investigate the scope of renovations necessary to make the building suitable as a new city building if the city decides to use it. City department heads also have toured the building to determine if it would meet the needs of their departments, Wiggins said, and those needs will be incorporated into the engineer's estimate.
"It's not a done deal. That's why we're bringing in the engineer to look at it, to determine whether it's feasible or not," Wiggins said. "I won't rule out the possibility of still working with the county on a joint site, but the city is pursuing other avenues at this point."
There have been discussions in the past about county and city offices locating in a central location.
