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5. Metropolitan Police Headquarters Campus

By Scott Blair, Editor-in-Chief

PROJECT COST: $70 Million

IMAGES: BOMEL/FINE PROPERTIES LLC

IMAGES: BOMEL/FINE PROPERTIES LLC

5. Metropolitan Police Headquarters Campus

Located on 14 acres at the northwest corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Alta Drive in Las Vegas, this project consists of three buildings: two, four-story buildings and a five-story structure, totaling 390,000-sq-ft. The public-private partnership is being built as lease-purchase with Clark County and the city of Las Vegas and will consolidate dozens of offices and up to 1,400 workers from throughout the Las Vegas Valley into one campus.

A new five-level, 1,671-stall parking garage is also being added, comprised of cast-in-place concrete. It quintuples the space of Metro�s existing facilities.

Location: Las Vegas, NV
Started: September 2009
Target Completion: July 2011
Developer: Fine Properties LLC /Mark L. Fine & Assoc. LLC
Design Firm: KKE Architects
General Contractor: PENTA Building Group
Project Manager: Thomas & Mack Development Group
Engineers: Slater Hanifan Group; STB Engineering; MSA; Harris Associates
Subcontractor: Bomel Construction; Dittmeier Steel; Bombard; Mojave Electric

Blair leads day-to-day operations of the ENR editorial team to ensure brand quality and further best practices. He spearheads ENR's various competitions, including Best Projects and the Award of Excellence, and organizes editorial content at events including the Top Young Professionals conference. A Jesse H. Neal, Construction Media Alliance and AZBEES-award-winning writer and videographer, Blair frequently contributes to ENR’s burgeoning video channel with project tour videos and interviews with industry leaders. He is also a frequent speaker and moderator on topics such as diversity and inclusion, design and jobsite technology, construction means and methods and marketing.