Bowmanstown and Parryville are hoping for grants to build new fire stations.

In November, Bowmanstown Borough Council applied for a statewide Local Share Account grant for a $1.1 million fire station.

The fire company will be demolishing the truck bays to build the new portion of the fire house.

The borough plans to relocate its municipal offices to a proposed new fire station.

Fire Chief Michael Spairana Jr. said that the fire company is able to build an engine room and offices, but not the social hall; the second grant ($1,075,000) would be to complete the entire building.

Council also considered a building fund and fire tax.

The fire company received a $925,000 grant for a new fire company building that came from statewide gaming from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.

The fire company has a concept design for the new station to be above the picnic grove on Lime Street. The existing fire station would be torn down and made into a parking lot.

Parryville also remains hopeful about a new borough hall building, emergency services facility and firehouse.

Borough council President Jason Smith said in September 2023 that the borough planned to seek LSA funding for its tri-use building, which would house its fire department, borough hall, and emergency shelter.

Project engineer Eric Snyder, of Keystone Consulting Engineers Inc., said the new application will have an estimated cost of $2 million.

The new building would be constructed on property to the east of the current fire company on Main Street.

The basement would be the borough hall/emergency shelter; the middle floor would be the fire department and multipurpose room, and the top story would be for storage.

Mayor Tom Kobal said the plan is to preserve the fire company building’s historical artifacts by placing them in a new station, and added they would also like to build a nice wrap around deck overlooking the Gap.

The borough building on Centre Street currently serves as a public meeting facility.

That building, which at one time housed Parryville Fire Company No. 1, would remain and be used as a maintenance shed, borough officials said.