By Brian Petersheim Jr. | Pinal Central
Maricopa Police Department this morning cut the ribbon at its new 32,200-square-foot police station at 18135 N. Park Plaza.
It’s more than double the size of the old facility next door that was MPD’s headquarters until next Wednesday.
“Can you believe it?” Mayor Nancy Smith asked a crowd of dozens of residents, dignitaries and city staffers. “It was just over 15 years ago when we hired our first chief of police.”
Smith described the new facility as an “exceptional space” for dispatchers and police and touted it “was built debt free.”
The old station, built in 2013, will be serve two new purposes.
“Half of that will be a theater, half of that would be an incubator space for new businesses,” Smith said.
