{"id":395233,"date":"2026-09-09T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395233\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:52:10","slug":"fort-lauderdale-police-headquarters-opens-after-years-of-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395233\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police headquarters opens after years of delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale\u2019s new police headquarters is finished and operational after years of delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Voters approved a $100 million bond for the project in 2019. The new three-story, 191,000-square-foot headquarters on Broward Boulevard replaces an 80-year-old building and is now home to a department of more than 700 personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is one of the most significant investments Fort Lauderdale has ever made in public safety,\u201d Mayor Dean Trantalis said during a morning tour of the new facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The headquarters features updated technology, expanded operational space and dedicated areas for training, public meetings and community engagement. It also includes a gun range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Getting the project to the finish line wasn\u2019t easy. Engineers had to address design flaws that caused the original construction to crack and bend. Repairs and reinforcement eventually allowed the project to move forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGetting us to this day took persistence,\u201d Trantalis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police Chief Bill Schultz said the new headquarters represents more than just a building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is more than just a structure,\u201d Schultz said. \u201cThis is a symbol of what happens when a community believes in its police department and when a department never stops believing in its mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The new facility can withstand a Category 5 hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Saira Anwer\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/c1f7fa2d-907b-4fe7-80.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Saira Anwer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Saira Anwer joined the Local 10 News team in July 2018. Saira is two-time Emmy-nominated reporter and comes to South Florida from Madison, Wisconsin, where she was working as a reporter and anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale\u2019s new police headquarters is finished and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-395233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}