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Gainesville breaks ground on $19M police evidence building

City of Gainesville officials and contractor AJAX Construction formally began construction April 24 on a new three-story, roughly 24,000-square-foot property and evidence facility on the Gainesville Police Department campus. The building is designed to handle the department’s expanding volume of stored evidence, improving storage organization and retrieval for investigations and prosecutions. The City Commission approved the $19 million project in December 2025, financing it through a bank loan tied to the Streets, Stations & Strong Foundations surtax program, with completion expected by summer 2027.

Sources: City of Gainesville