Bidding underway on Game and Fish’s new Cody office

Posted 11/19/20

Plans to build a new regional office for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in Cody are continuing, with preliminary plans showing an impressive footprint and facade.

The facility is expected to …

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Bidding underway on Game and Fish’s new Cody office

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Plans to build a new regional office for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in Cody are continuing, with preliminary plans showing an impressive footprint and facade.

The facility is expected to include 19,000 square feet of office space with an attached 14,500 square foot, two-story shop and a 5,000 square foot outbuilding. But most of the work currently being done is behind the scenes, said John Kennedy, deputy director of internal operations for the department.

“The only other challenge I see right now is keeping [the commission] up to speed with some challenges that we have,” Kennedy told the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission on Wednesday.

The department recently worked out details for the water needed for the facility and required access roads. The budget for the project is expected to come in somewhere between $5 million and $10 million. The department purchased the 21.7-acre parcel of land in 2019 for $350,000; the site is located just north of Cody off of Wyo. Highway 120.

A virtual site visit for interested contractors was held on Nov. 10 and bids for the building’s construction are being accepted until this (Thursday) afternoon. The department hopes to break ground in February. Substantial completion is anticipated in May of 2022, with final completion shortly after that.

“We are on schedule,” Kennedy said.

The Cody Regional office serves as the department’s headquarters in the Big Horn Basin. The Game and Fish’s current office also sits on Wyo. 120, but south of Cody on Park County-owned land. It was built in 1979, with the thought that it would house nine people, the department has said. Through some reconfigurations and the addition of a couple of modular buildings, the facility now has 24 office spaces, but it also has more than 30 full-time and temporary employees.

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