Michigan State Police employees are scheduled to move into the new, $45 million police headquarters in February.
The 148,000 square foot building is ready, but the Michigan State Police are organizing the move, which will uproot employees from three other locations.
“This building was built for the employees so there’s not a whole lot of room for expansion,” says Shanon Banner, spokeswoman for the State Police. “This is a newer building and will allow them to reconfigure much more easily.”
The existing Michigan State Police headquarters is in East Lansing near the Breslin Center on the Michigan State University (MSU) campus. Employees are also located in the Hollister building and in a building on Collins Road. Shanon says the structural division of some of the buildings makes employee interaction difficult.
“There was a desire to have an office for the Michigan State Police in Lansing,” she says about the decision to build in Downtown Lansing. The new building is on the corner of Grand Avenue and Kalamazoo.
Source: Shanon Banner, State Police
Writer: Ivy Hughes
All Photographs © Dave Trumpie
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