BTN News Members Speak Out Building a Replacement Facility for Hollenbeck Police Station
| Building a Replacement Facility for Hollenbeck Police Station |
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| By Roy San Filippo, Staff Writer | |||||||||
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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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