Goyang vows to push ahead with new city hall construction

Goyang Special City announced Wednesday that researchers from the Local Investment Analysis Center, known as LOMAC, under the Korea Local Finance Association visited the planned new city hall site in Jugyo-dong and the current city hall on Tuesday to assess the project's status and building conditions, and held a meeting with Goyang Mayor Min Kyung-sun.

During the visit, the LOMAC researchers toured the Jugyo-dong site and received a briefing on the project's progress and future plans, confirming key details. They then moved to the current city hall, where they inspected major facilities including the main building, annex, arts center and gymnasium, and assessed conditions such as aging infrastructure, insufficient space and the dispersed layout of existing facilities.

Following the site inspection, Mayor Min met with the research team to exchange views on the direction of the new city hall project, a re-feasibility study and the steps ahead.

Min conveyed the city's strong commitment to normalizing and advancing the new city hall project without delay, and asked the researchers to cooperate actively so that the re-feasibility study could proceed objectively and swiftly.

The city plans to focus its administrative resources on promptly submitting required materials during the re-feasibility review and responding actively to any items under examination. It also intends to build on the study's findings to accelerate the project by moving forward with follow-up administrative procedures, including an investment review by Gyeonggi Province.

"This site inspection is an important step in directly assessing the conditions of the planned site and the current city hall, and in conducting a concrete review of the project's feasibility," a city official said. "We will actively support the re-feasibility study so that it fully reflects the changed project and fiscal conditions and proceeds with substance."

"As the construction of a new city hall is a critical project directly tied to administrative services for residents, we will also move swiftly on follow-up procedures such as the investment review after the re-feasibility study," the official added. "We will push ahead with the new city hall construction without delay to resolve the inconvenience caused by the aging and dispersed facilities and to provide more convenient and efficient administrative services."