CHEYENNE — The Cheyenne City Council Finance Committee voted Tuesday to recommend approval of two separate bids totaling more than $3.3 million to renovate the Cheyenne Municipal Building, and continue restoration work on the historic Cheyenne Depot.
The committee backed a $1.47 million overhaul of the Municipal Building and discussed a $1.87 million bid for the next phase of Depot renovations. City officials say both projects aim to rejuvenate the key city and tourist facilities, with work wrapping up in 2026 and 2027.
Cheyenne Municipal Building
Finance Committee members moved to recommend approval of a bid of $1,474,550 from Plan One Architects to renovate the Cheyenne Municipal Building.
Adele Bartel, Cheyenne Public Works staff engineer, said the renovation would be a “total gutting” of the building, which includes landscaping, exterior lighting, removing non load-bearing walls, removing and replacing mechanical and electrical systems, and having a new design and layout.
“It will be more of a closed design, much like it is right now,” Bartel said, “with properly designed offices and individual areas for each department that will be future-proofed so that we don’t need to worry about adding extra walls ever again.”
City staff will be relocated for the entire duration of the renovations. Craig LaVoy, Public Works deputy director, said the department has obtained floors three and five at the US Bank building on Carey Avenue for city staff members to use in the meantime.
Councilman Tom Segrave suggested LaVoy also obtain office space on the second floor of the Cheyenne Municipal Court building, but the floor would have to undergo renovations first, which Segrave also suggested be added to the Cheyenne Municipal Building renovations contract.
However, that is not something the Finance Committee members could hold a vote to add at this time, and would have to first be discussed by the City Council.
According to the bid’s supporting document, the renovations are expected to be completed by Aug. 27, 2027.
The bid passed with Councilman Mark Moody voting “no,” because he said he wants to further discuss adding the proposed court building renovations to the contract.
Historic Cheyenne Depot
The Finance Committee members also discussed a bid of $1,874,421 from Richardson Construction, Inc. to start phase two of restoring the historic Cheyenne Depot.
Phase one of the renovations included a $1.4 million bid to update the patio on the southwest side of the depot, renovations to the first-floor restrooms, repairing and replacing the main lobby doors, and updating the kitchen to accommodate catering or concessions.
The proposed phase two entails replacing all of the carpet on both the second and third floor, repainting the second and third floor, reconstruction on the second floor, removing the half-walls to create a larger open workspace, renovating the current break room area to make it two rooms and painting the trim on all of the exterior windows.
The phase also includes removing the center portion of concrete going through the Depot Plaza and replacing it with brick, said Jason Sanchez, Community Recreation & Events department head. The new brick path would feature a train track pattern going from the Depot to Capitol Avenue.
Sanchez said this project would also consist of building a shade structure to the east side of the splash pad, and removing the white tents that city staff keep up during the summer months for shade.
“It’s been about 25 years since we renovated the depot,” Segrave said, “and at least to my knowledge, this is the first major upgrade or improvement to the second and third floors. … I’m really happy that we continue to take care of it. It’s something that’s unfortunately expensive to do, but taking care of our properties is very important, especially this one in the middle of downtown.”
Sanchez said the interior portion of phase two is expected to be completed by Feb. 27, 2026. The plaza work will be completed by April 15, 2026, and the exterior window painting will be completed by May 15, 2026.
The two bids will go before the full City Council on Monday for approval.
