Schaumburg officials tour new village hall, just months from its completion
Just three months from the scheduled completion of Schaumburg’s new village hall, most elected officials and department heads Tuesday got their first look at their future workplaces in a state resembling two-year-old renderings.
During their previous visit in May, the $44.2 million building was still largely a skeletal network of steel girders.
“Now that you get the visuals, it really makes a difference,” Mayor Tom Dailly said upon seeing his second-story corner office. An optimum layout for the furnished space seemed to come to him in a flash, he added.
“The perspective on the second floor is brand new for anyone,” said Village Manager Brian Townsend, who’s had years with a view of the pond on the Robert O. Atcher Municipal Campus before the move to a temporary village hall at 1000 E. Woodfield Road in April 2025. “Right now it looks great!”
The temporary use of a vacated office building near Woodfield provides less cramped quarters for village staff since they left the 52-year-old former village hall. But Townsend said the longtime campus, in a purpose-built facility, is where they’re meant to be.
“If you ask any of the staff, they would say we took a step up,” he said of last year’s move. “And now we’re taking another step up.”
Over Labor Day weekend, thousands of Septemberfest attendees will get a closer look at the building and the reshaped grounds that include a landscaped village logo on a small hill to the west.
Leading the tour of the building, Schaumburg Support Services Manager Mark Rysavy explained the east side is phased slightly ahead of the west side so that the delivery of furniture can follow suit in a couple of months.
“We’re still optimistic about that schedule at the end of November,” he said of the planned move-in of staff. “We’re getting there.”
The move is tentatively planned for Nov. 19 and 20 so the building can open to the public on Nov. 23.
“See you when it’s done,” Rysavy said to his departing guests at the end of Tuesday’s tour.
“We’ll see you Nov. 19,” the eager Dailly replied.
Beyond its construction cost, another $5.8 million was budgeted for the facility’s furniture, fixtures and equipment. Itasca-based Williams Architects was paid $1.8 million to design the building.
Next year, the temporary village hall site will be demolished to make way for a new police station slated to open in late 2028.