The Aberdeen City Council is considering the possibility of relocating City Hall into the Seafirst Building at the corner of Market Street and Broadway.

At their meeting Monday night, the council authorized $5,000 for a feasibility study that would use the old bank and office building for municipal services and convert the current city hall into a police station with attached jail.

The resolution stated that the “existing city hall is at maximum capacity in addition to being inefficient and confusing.” The vacant Seafirst Building has three times the office space as city hall and has a large amount of covered parking, and the purchase of that building would give the city the opportunity to provide space to retail tenants.

The report continued, “As much as the current city hall fails at facilitating the delivery of municipal services it would function almost perfectly as a police building. It is the right size, material and the current council chambers could even function as a municipal court. However, the current police department would need to be torn down and a new attached jail facility built in its place.”

The 82,344-square-foot, four-story Seafirst Building has just under 36,000 square feet of rental space and an equal amount of office space. There are 89 total parking spaces, including 54 covered spaces. Windermere Real Estate has the listing, with an asking price of $2.95 million.

The building has been for sale for several years and most of the commercial tenants have moved out.