City Eyes Former Alemany High Site for Police Station
The City Council agreed Wednesday to study the possibility of building the city’s 20th police station on the former Alemany High School campus.
The earthquake damaged campus has been long closed, and could be an ideal site for the Valley’s sixth police station, according to City Councilman Richard Alarcon, who introduced the motion to conduct a study.
Father Gregory Coiro, media relations director for the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which owns the land, said the organization is discussing leasing out the land to the LAPD, but also is entertaining ideas from other developers.
“Certainly having a police substation there would be good for the city, good for the community and good for the archdiocese, but as in any agreement like this, there are particulars that need to be worked out,” he said.
Now the LAPD and city staff are expected to determine the financial impacts and to find possible funding sources to build a station.
A 1996 police facilities study determined that the city should add at least one station to its ranks, and suggested it be built in the Valley.
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