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building, a 3,200sf police support building and a 10,600 sqft indoor shooting range. The
project is in partnership with GFF Architects out of Dallas. The total construction cost is
estimated to be $39M.
• City of Temple. During the summer of 2022, the team started working on Schematic Design
drawings for the City’s Public Safety Training Facility. The facility consists of two separate
buildings, including a 13,000sf classroom building and an 18,000sf indoor range. Both
buildings are connected by an outdoor plaza and architectural canopy. A third building being
designed, on the opposite end of the existing campus, consists of 6,000 sf simunition
shoothouse. Estimates currently being finalized are coming in with preliminary project costs
of $33M for all 3 buildings and associated site improvements. FGMA is expected to begin
developing AE proposals for full design services beyond schematic design. Additionally,
FGMA has been working with the City of Temple on a programming/master plan study
including the existing downtown police headquarters and outdoor range facility.
• City of Justin, in October of 2022 FGMA was asked to study the current volunteer fire
department that serves Justin and bring options to the table as how they might develop a
city owned department. The city's population was approximately 4,500 in 2020. In the past 2
years they have approved developments that will contain over 3,500 new homes with
additional subdivisions in the planning stages. We brought in Dave Zslinski with the IFCA Fire
Consulting Team to assess and report on the current VFD. The result of this study is that two
(2) new stations will be required in the immediate future. We will continue to stay in contact
with the client.
• We are sponsoring the Texas County Judge Education conferences for 2023. This allows
direct access to 100+ Judges at (5) 3-day events. Charlie will focus on the fire/police
conferences this year but will attend the NRPA and TRAPS rec conferences since they are
local. We are continuing to evolve our marking collateral to include our Texas police and fire
presence. We are also shoring up our contractor relationships as we are seeing more and
more public safety projects issued as design/build.

Texas Market Expansion Efforts

• In May 2022, FGMA hired Jaime Palomo as leader of the Texas Municipal Market. He is
based in the Austin office and brings over thirty years of experience and has strong
relationships in the Austin market. In August 2022, FGMA hired Charlie Kearns as Principal of
Business Development for the North Texas Market and is based in the new Fort Worth office.
Charlie is an engineer by education but has worked primarily for architecture firms in the
DFW area. He also brings over three decades of experience and is working on building
FGMA’s brand recognition in the market.
• FGMA continued to explore expanding the municipal practice group to include municipal
utility districts, developer led projects, and water resources facility design. FGMA presented
at the Capital Area Suburban Exchange (CASE) conference that focuses on Central Texas
municipal utility districts and attended the P3 conference focused on developer led /
alternative financing. Both conferences continue to strengthen FGMA’s brand recognition
and network. FGMA continues to build relationships and has been included in proposals by
master developers who are pursuing large P3 projects that include a range of civil
infrastructure such as city halls, recreation centers and other public facilities. Current
relationships are with MA Partners, P3 Advisors, Hunt/Amber, Ryan Companies, and Red
Leaf.

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