Castle Rock approves $22 million Fire Station 156 for growth, safety

Castle Rock has turned Fire Station 156 into a concrete response to growth, breaking ground on a station that town planners say will help protect northeast Castle Rock as homes, roads and new neighborhoods keep spreading outward. The project is more than a standard firehouse. It is planned as a station and centralized logistics center, a setup designed to improve emergency response while also handling equipment, staging and daily operational support.

Town budget materials put the project at about 26,000 square feet and estimate the cost at $20.5 million, while a neighborhood-meeting notice described a 27,600-square-foot facility with six apparatus bays split between fire-station and logistics-maintenance functions. The building will also include living quarters for firefighters and logistics offices. The site sits on town-owned property on Castle Oaks Drive, south of Pleasant View Drive, and development records identify it as 3203 Castle Oaks Drive.

Castle Rock Fire and Rescue officially broke ground on Fire Station 156 on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, after the Castle Rock Town Council approved a construction contract with O-A-K Colorado. Town project updates said the design and budget were in their final stages, along with replatting and a minor planned-development amendment, as the station moved toward construction. Town records show the project was identified earlier in the 2021 Fire Department Master Plan, reflecting years of planning before dirt was ever moved.

The need is tied directly to how fast the town is changing. Castle Rock’s 2025 and 2026 planning documents connect Fire Station 156 to growth and the need to preserve strong emergency response times as development pushes farther from the town core. The town also planned to add three fire positions in 2026 as part of a broader public-safety expansion.

That expansion comes as the department continues to operate from a relatively small headquarters at 300 Perry St., where Castle Rock Fire Headquarters provides about 3,000 square feet of office space for the whole department. In that context, the new station on Castle Oaks Drive is meant to do more than add another response point. It is designed to give Castle Rock a stronger public-safety footprint in the northeast part of town, where every extra minute can matter as the community keeps building out.