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Did the City of Orlando finish Fire Station 6 by the fall of 2025, as it said it would?

The Roadmap Reckoner · Fire Station 6, 3900 Showalter Aviation Street, Orlando (Orange County), Florida (the release gave 501 Herndon Ave) · last checked 2026-10-27

Verdict	DELIVERED ON TIME
Promiser	City of Orlando (Orlando Fire Department; project managed by Public Works), as announced at the August 7, 2024 groundbreaking
Place	Fire Station 6, 3900 Showalter Aviation Street, Orlando (Orange County), Florida (the release gave 501 Herndon Ave)
Promised	Fall 2025 ("The new station is expected to be completed by the fall of 2025", City of Orlando groundbreaking release, Aug. 7, 2024); the city's project page said "October 2025"
Delivered / status	2025-11-18: the city's station page says "On November 18, 2025, the new Fire Station 6 opened"; it is the only record of the opening found; the project page's budget was "$12.7 Million" and no final cost was found
Last checked	2026-10-27

Verdict: DELIVERED ON TIME (on the city's own account of the opening).

The City of Orlando's release for the August 7, 2024 groundbreaking said "The new station is expected to be completed by the fall of 2025" [C1]. The city's station page says "On November 18, 2025, the new Fire Station 6 opened on 3900 Showalter Aviation Street" [C11]. The only record of the opening I found is that page [C11]. The city's own project page gave an earlier month, October 2025, and the station opened 18 days after it [C5].

Last checked: October 27, 2026.

The promise. The city's release for the groundbreaking said the station "is expected to be completed by the fall of 2025" [C1]. It gave no cost [C1].
Where it stands. The station page says the station opened on November 18, 2025 [C11]. That is 468 days after the groundbreaking and 343 days before the last check (my arithmetic). November 18 falls in the fall by either common count, before November 30 and before the December 21 solstice (my arithmetic).
The tighter date. The city's Public Works project page said "Anticipated Completion Date" "October 2025" [C5]. It was never revised: a capture of January 7, 2026 still read "October 2025" [C7]. Its address now returns an HTTP 404 error page [C12].
Cost. The project page gave "$12.7 Million" [C5], unchanged through January 7, 2026 [C7]. I found no final cost [C13].
Scope. The release said the station would have "15,913-square-foot" of floor space [C2]. The page now calls it a "15-913 square foot, four-bay" station [C11].

The promise

The City of Orlando's release for the groundbreaking, last updated August 7, 2024 [C1]:

"The new station is expected to be completed by the fall of 2025"

The station page in December 2024 and March 2025 said the same in other words: "expected to be completed by Fall 2025" [C8, C9]. The release says the station "will be home to 36 firefighters, house four bays and three fire apparatus", an engine, a tower truck and a rescue [C2].

Timeline

August 7, 2024. The groundbreaking release gives the promise above [C1]. WFTV reported the station was "set to open in 2025" [C4]. The release's address for the station is "501 Herndon Ave" [C3].
August 2024. The Public Works project page, last updated August 7, 2024 and first captured August 9, 2024, gave a start in August 2024, "October 2025" as the completion, "14 Months", the contractor "H.J. High Construction" and a budget of "$12.7 Million" [C5]. It gave the address "3900 East Concord Street" [C6].
December 5, 2024 and March 16, 2025. The station page said "expected to be completed by Fall 2025" and "Houses Engine 6, Tower 6 and 1 Rescue", at "501 Herndon Avenue" [C8, C9].
End of October 2025. The project page's completion month, "October 2025", ended. The page was not revised [C5, C7].
November 6, 2025. The station page, as captured that day, said "On November 18, 2025, the new Fire Station 6 will open on 3900 Showalter Aviation Street" [C10].
November 18, 2025. The station page says the station opened [C11].
January 7, 2026. The last capture of the project page still read "October 2025" and "$12.7 Million" [C7].
Later in 2026. The station page reads as above, in a Wayback capture of the summer and in a live read at the last check [C11].
At the last check. The project page address returns an HTTP 404 error page [C12].

What changed and why, in the record's own words

The completion date, in the city's words: "fall of 2025" [C1], "October 2025" [C5], "Fall 2025" [C8, C9], then "will open" on November 18, 2025 [C10] and "opened" [C11].
The reasons given in the record: none. No page I read says why the opening came after the project page's month [C5, C10, C11].
The address. The city's own pages give three. The release gives "501 Herndon Ave" [C3]. The project page gives "3900 East Concord Street" [C6]. The station page from November 2025 gives "3900 Showalter Aviation Street" [C10, C11]. The release puts media parking "near the corner of Herndon Avenue and Showalter Aviation Street" [C3]. I did not check a parcel record.
The units. During construction the station page said "Houses Engine 6, Tower 6 and 1 Rescue" [C8, C9]. The station page after the opening lists no units and no staffing [C11].

What it cost

Project cost. The project page gave "$12.7 Million" [C5]. The release gave no cost [C1].
Final cost. I found no final cost. The city's 2023-24 budget in brief lists "Fire Station 11 Supplemental Funding" and no line for Fire Station 6 [C13].

What to watch

The final cost and any change orders, which would be in City Council records and later capital plans, not in the pages I read [C5, C13].
The units and staffing at the station, which the page no longer lists [C11].

What this entry did not check

City Council agendas or minutes for the construction contract, change orders or final acceptance. I have no record of the final cost or of any schedule change before November 2025.
The city's 2024-25 and 2025-26 capital plans.
Any independent record of the opening: a news report, a fire department social post, a certificate of occupancy or a permit record. The December 13, 2025 open house named in a search summary was not found on orlando.gov or in the Wayback Machine.
A parcel record to settle the three addresses.
Units, staffing or response times after the opening [C11].

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