Groundbreaking for new police station happening Thursday in Idaho Falls – East Idaho News

IDAHO FALLS – A venture a few years within the making is about to get underway in Idaho Falls.

The Idaho Falls Police Division is holding the groundbreaking ceremony for its new constructing Thursday morning on the website previously occupied by the stockyards at 701 Northgate Mile.

The ceremony will start at 10 a.m. Mayor Rebecca Casper will likely be in attendance and will likely be giving a number of remarks. Police Chief Bryce Johnson may even be talking.

The development of the brand new police complicated will likely be a historic occasion for the town. The division has by no means had a standalone, consolidated headquarters in its 127-year historical past.

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It at present occupies 5,670 sq. toes inside Bonneville County’s Legislation Enforcement constructing, which was constructed within the Seventies. The division has continued to borrow and lease extra house in different buildings over time. Johnson informed EastIdahoNews.com in 2019 that managing a police division throughout eight completely different buildings shouldn’t be very environment friendly and is complicated for individuals attempting to report a criminal offense, get fingerprinted or give a witness assertion.

Conversations a few new police division started round 2007, however later got here to a halt because of the recession. The town bought the property on Northgate Mile in 2019 and formally introduced it might be the positioning for the brand new police complicated.

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Florida-based Architects Design Group partnered with Idaho Falls-based NBW in designing the venture. Ormond Builders in Idaho Falls is the contractor. Building is predicted to start quickly after the groundbreaking.

The ceremony is open to the general public.

Later that afternoon, the town may even host a ribbon-cutting for its not too long ago accomplished Paine substation and a 161-kilovolt transmission line. The substation and energy line will likely be operated by Idaho Falls Energy and the occasion will happen at 2 p.m. at 5995 North River Highway.

EastIdahoNews.com is planning to attend each of those occasions and supply extra updates.

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