Anaheim this month started construction on the city’s 12th fire station, located in the Platinum Triangle, meant to reduce response times in the growing neighborhood that is home to thousands of residents and major destinations such as Angel Stadium and the Honda Center.

The city officials celebrated the beginning of construction for the new fire station on March 4. The occasion occurred after years of delays stemming from objections once raised by the Angels as part of legal issues over the canceled sale of the stadium.

The fire station is being built in a city-owned parking lot about a quarter mile from the stadium off State College Boulevard. Construction on the two buildings that will make up the station is expected to take until mid-2026, according to city officials.

The station will cost around $15 million to construct. City officials expect it will cut emergency medical and fire response times by half to the area. The station will also better serve visitor destinations, including Angel Stadium and the Honda Center, and the now under construction OCVibe, which will have apartments and an entertainment district, officials said.

“Nearly 10,000 Anaheim residents now call the Platinum Triangle home with thousands more to come in the years ahead,” Mayor Ashleigh Aitken said in a statement. “Station 12 will bring reassurance for everyone in the Platinum Triangle, from those living right next door in some of Anaheim’s most modern apartments, to the cheering fans at Angel games and all that is to come with OCVibe.”

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The station will have two fire companies and paramedic units, Aitken said.

A fire engine the city purchased more than three years ago for the new station has been deployed at a different station in the Anaheim Hills as the city sorted through its legal issues with the Angels.

The city was in the planning process for building the fire station when the Angels in 2022 told the city that they couldn’t build at that location because it was an area covered by the existing stadium lease.

That came when the Angels were trying to recover $5 million from the city for costs it incurred trying to arrange the sale of the stadium, which the City Council canceled following discovery federal investigators were looking at a former mayor and the negotiations.

The two sides ultimately sorted out their issues and last summer agreed to settle for $2.75 million from Anaheim to the Angels and the team would no longer object to the fire station’s construction.

“My council colleagues that have been dealing with this for a couple of months, we probably didn’t think that this day was going to come as fast as it did,” Aitken said at the groundbreaking ceremony.

The Platinum Triangle is the city’s fastest-growing neighborhood with mid-rise apartments and offices springing up in the area that was once mostly industrial.

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