Rising from the ashes: New city hall to be built on location of old

July 22 will mark a year since the old city hall was destroyed by arson, and at the Clarksville City Council meeting Monday evening, the council unanimously voted to build the new city hall on the location of the old city hall.
     Previously, the council had decided to build on the empty lots of the 100 Block of South Main, but after Dollar General requested to purchase those lots to build a storefront, the location of a new city hall had been left a matter for question with four locations under consideration. A committee including Mayor Val Swinton and councilmen Kenneth Smith and Todd Fails discussed these options in depth a week previous to the council meeting, and presented their findings to the council.
     “We decided it would make the most sense to build here now because we own it, and we feel we can, by expanding out to the alley, get a good-sized city hall,” Swinton said.
     Smith added that there was plenty of room. Fails said all roads in the discussion led back to this location, and Swinton indicated it would save time.
 
Read more in the July 19 edition of the STAR.