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GPD breaks ground on $19M evidence storage building at NW campus

Gainesville city officials and contractor AJAX Construction marked the start of construction April 24 on a three-story, roughly 24,000-square-foot property and evidence facility on the Gainesville Police Department campus at 545 NW Eighth Ave. The building is designed to handle the department’s expanding volume of evidence, improving storage, processing, and retrieval capabilities for investigations and prosecutions. The City Commission approved the $19 million project in December 2025, funding it through a bank loan backed by the Streets, Stations & Strong Foundations surtax program, with completion targeted for summer 2027.

Sources: City of Gainesville