Schaumburg plans move into temporary village hall by April 1

Completing their 51st -- and final -- full calendar year at the Robert O. Atcher Municipal Center today, Schaumburg officials expect to be fully operational on April 1 at the recently acquired and renovated temporary village hall at 1000 Woodfield Road.

The 204,000-square-foot vacant office building will serve the village until a new two-story structure is completed at the end of 2026 on the current single-floor municipal center’s footprint, 101 Schaumburg Court.

To make this spring’s target date, the move itself is planned to take place during March, Schaumburg Communications Director Allison Albrecht said.

A study determined municipal operations had outgrown the current village hall. However, Mayor Tom Dailly doesn’t expect staff members to fall in love with the short-term substitute.

“The temporary place won’t be the ideal place for us,” he said. “What the feeling will be is, ‘How much longer do we have to be here?’” I think we’ll all be happy to get out of there. I’ll be excited a year from June when we start to see the (new) building built.“

The office building was purchased for $5.45 million and eventually will be demolished to be the site of the village’s next police station.

In the meantime, the village is paying $1.47 million to construction manager Camosy Inc. of Zion to prepare the building for its 21-month stint as Schaumburg’s municipal headquarters.

That includes about $300,000 worth of new equipment that later will be moved to the permanent village hall. Existing furniture is also making the trip to Woodfield Road, Dailly said.

Demolition of the longtime village hall is scheduled for May; construction on its successor begins in July. Steelwork completion is anticipated by November, with the aim of finishing the entire project in December 2026.

Trustees hired Itasca-based Williams Architects to design the new building for $1.8 million and approved conceptual plans in October.