A former hobby shop building in Franklin Township will be razed to make room for a new township administration and police building.

Supervisors unanimously agreed on Tuesday to accept the feasibility report for the former Carpenter’s Hobby Shop at 903 Fairyland Road, and to have Carbon Engineering complete a demo contract to demolish the building.

The board held a workshop meeting Sept. 29 to discuss the new proposed township administration and police building.

After the meeting, board Chairman Fred Kemmerer said the township is looking toward the future.

“What we have now isn’t adequate,” Kemmerer said.

The township wants a building that would have enough room to accommodate eight police officers, administration, zoning officer, zoning hearing board and/or supervisors for when they have to go into executive session.

The plan is to knock down the former hobby shop building, and possibly the current administration office. The current township building is only 2,800 square feet.

In turn, the township would construct a new 7,200-square-foot building in between the former Hobby Shop site and current administration office.

In May, supervisors said the former hobby shop building was no longer an option for a potential township building expansion.

Township engineer Mike Tirpak, of Carbon Engineering, conducted a feasibility study on the former Hobby Shop Building and determined it isn’t worth repairing the building.

A scope of work listed work needed before the building could be demolished, such as asbestos inspection for removal, lead paint, pipes, underground and above ground storage tanks and chemical storage.

In April, supervisors agreed to cash in a matured CD from Third Coast Bank, Humble, Texas, in the amount of $248,623.

Rather than reinvest it, the board wants it to be placed in the township’s Capital Reserved fund so it can have easy access to the money.

The township started a building fund about 30 years ago with plans to build a new township building, and supervisors believe it has come to the point where the township needs to expand for the police department and its administration office meeting room.

Supervisors planned to have a feasibility study done to see if the Hobby Shop would be worth fixing up, and then expand the building from there for either administrative office space or police offices.

The previous board of supervisors’ plan was for the Capital Reserve Building Funds be used to tear down the hobby shop and the current administration office, and rebuild a new police and administrative office.