Cleveland City Council on Monday night approved Mayor Justin Bibb’s plan to renovate Superior Avenue’s historic ArtCraft building into Cleveland police’s new headquarters.
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Bibb pivoted to a renovation of the ArtCraft building after shelving former Mayor Frank Jackson’s plans to build a newly constructed headquarters on city-owned land along Opportunity Corridor. Among other reasons, Bibb prefers the Superior Avenue site because a renovation would cost less than new construction, police can move in more quickly, and the site is closer to downtown.
Carter Edman, manager of architecture and site development, said Monday that the city hopes police will occupy the site for at least 50 years, and ideally longer. Architecture plans for the ArtCraft building include flexible space, so it can be adapted to future policing trends and practices, Edman said.
The ArtCraft building beat out the competition due largely to its cost and location, Edman said. The city also wanted to ensure that it would own the headquarters building, and be its only occupant. Bibb cites those rent costs as one of the reasons why he landed on the ArtCraft building as his preferred site for the police headquarters. With construction slated to end by mid-2025, the police department can move out of the Justice Center sooner. Had the city stuck with its Opportunity Corridor plans, the new headquarters wouldn’t have been complete until late 2026, officials have said.
Factoring in all the costs – which would include a new headquarters building on Opportunity Corridor, plus another building to accommodate everything currently housed at the Payne Avenue building – the total price tag could’ve climbed to $162 million, city architect Carter Edman told a council committee last week.
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