Texas’s Top Projects - 21

Grand Prairie Public Safety Building and Activity Center

PROJECT COST: $80,000,000

The Grand Prairie Public Safety Headquarters building is replacing the current facility and is scheduled to open in April 2010. The 135,000-sq-ft building houses various police-related departments and is twice the size of the existing facility. It includes conference rooms, a new crime lab, expanded interview rooms, additional parking and the latest technology.

The Active Adult Center, also scheduled to open April 2010, offers recreational amenities for adults. The 59,000-sq-ft facility features an indoor aquatics center. The center also includes a small gym for basketball and volleyball, a fitness area, aerobics room, two classrooms, a display and sales room and a game room with billiards, darts, a big-screen television and access to a coffee bar. A walking area on the second floor features glass tunnels and views of the lake. The building also includes a 100-seat theater, banquet room with sliding walls, a dining room and full service commercial kitchen. An outdoor covered patio area includes a grill, seating area and fireplace.

Key Facts

Location: Grand Prairie
Start/completion dates: December 2008/ April 2010
Owner: City of Grand Prairie
General contractor: Manhattan Construction Co., Dallas
Architect: Brinkley Sargent Architects, Dallas
Structural engineer: Structural Engenuity, Dallas
Civil engineer: Halff Associates, Dallas
MEP engineer: M-E Engineers, Denver, Colo.
Major subcontractors: MESA, Dallas; DynaTen, Dallas; Humphrey & Associates, Dallas; JRJ Paving, Irving