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Building a Replacement Facility for Hollenbeck Police Station |
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By Roy San Filippo, Staff Writer
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 On the Job With District Council 36 Painters
Craft union members are working in East Los Angeles to construct a
replacement facility for the LAPD’s Hollenbeck Police Station. The $31
million construction project was awarded to FTR International, Inc. and
is being built under a Project Labor Agreement.
The project, calls for construction of a new 54,000 square-foot, two
story facility that will include a lobby, support areas, a
multi-purpose room, and holding cells. The building’s exterior walls
will be highlighted by rectangular windows and insets that will allow
light into the building, while still keeping views inside discrete to
preserve the station’s privacy and safety.
The public entrance will be an open plaza with a wall of layered
translucent glass panels. The project will also include a four level
parking structure, an 8,000 square-foot vehicle maintenance building,
fuel station, car wash and a communications tower. It is being built on
the site of previous facility.
“The previous 36,550 square foot facility did not adequately meet the
needs of the Los Angeles Police Department and wasn’t able to
accommodate the expected growth of police protective services needed by
the community,” explained City Engineer Gary Lee Moore.
“The PLA also promotes employment for local residents —up to 30 percent
of the labor force and provides apprenticeship training that will
enable these workers to go on to other construction work as it occurs,”
Moore said. The Hollenbeck project is expected to take approximately
780 calendar days to complete.
The new station has been designed as a Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) facility, and includes sustainable design
features such as recycled content materials, locally manufactured
materials, an energy efficient mechanical system and drought resistant
landscaping.
Building Trades News visited the jobsite to interview painters from
IUPAT, District Council 36. Currently there are eight painters working
on site, however, that number has reached as high as 40, according to
Guillermo Acosta, Superintendent with FTR.
The construction is being financed with Proposition Q funds, the
city-wide security general obligation bond measure for the city of Los
Angeles approved by voters in March 2002. The measure made available
$600 million to replace, expand and combine the 911 dispatch center,
build six community police stations, replace the metropolitan jail,
build two bomb squad facilities and renovate other police and fire
facilities throughout the city.
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Sergio Lopez
Local 1595
Journeyman
The apprenticeship program was a valuable
experience. The teachers were all very good and were trained in the use
of different tools and painting techniques.
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Victor Jordan
Local 1595
Foreman
Before I joined the union, I worked as a
non-union painter. Being a union painter has provided me health care
benefits and a retirement [plan]. Now I am planning for the future. The
money and jobs are also better.
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Guillermo Acosta
Local 256
Superintendent
The best thing about being a union
painter is the fact that it’s good money, good benefits and you get the
opportunity to learn a trade.
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Edgar Montoya
Journeyman
Local 95
It’s really important for journeymen to help train the apprentices.
It helps in the continuation of our craft and betterment of our trade.
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