{"id":467290,"date":"2026-10-15T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467290\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:48:07","slug":"allen-police-hq-to-get-furniture-exercise-equipment-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467290\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen police HQ to get furniture, exercise equipment | Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The $97.1 million <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/allen\/government\/new-971m-103000-square-foot-allen-police-hq-set-for-early-2027-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Allen Police Department project<\/a> is 76% complete and on budget, Director of Engineering Chris Flanigan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofallen.org\/government\/city_council\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Allen City Council <\/a>approved $2.6 million in furniture and equipment purchasing contracts for the new Allen Police Department Headquarters at an <a href=\"https:\/\/actv.org\/internetchannel\/show\/4390?seekto=3402&amp;site=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Oct. 13 meeting.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A closer look<\/p>\n<p>Council members approved three purchases for exercise equipment, technology equipment and furniture for the facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exercise equipment includes free weights, machines, weight bars, medicine balls and dumbbells, and costs $252,973, per city documents. The purchase of network switches and wireless access points will not exceed $500,000, Flanigan said. The office and dispatch furniture will cost $1.8 million, per city documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The costs were not included in the city\u2019s initial construction contract, but were planned for in the $97.1 million budget. City officials opted to work with the vendors directly in an effort to seek lower costs, Flanigan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project is remaining on budget at a total of $97.1 [million],\u201d Flanigan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How we got here<\/p>\n<p>Allen voters passed an $83 million bond in <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.allentx.gov\/en\/pages\/2023-bond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2023<\/a> to fund the project. The 103,000-square-foot, three-story facility will be located on Century Parkway, between Allen City Hall and the Allen post office, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Police Chief Kyle Taliaferro said the department has grown in size along with the city and outgrew its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allenpolice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">current facility<\/a> several years ago. The new headquarters will include:<\/p>\n<p>A large community room for public events<\/p>\n<p>An expanded property and evidence room<\/p>\n<p>A larger crime scene lab<\/p>\n<p>Secure parking<\/p>\n<p>Strategically organized workspaces<\/p>\n<p>A human performance center dedicated to officer wellness<\/p>\n<p>A spacious training room<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead<\/p>\n<p>Police department operations are expected to move into the new facility in March, Flanigan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince groundbreaking back in 2025, we have hit every major milestone either on or ahead of schedule,\u201d Flanigan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $97.1 million Allen Police Department project is 76% complete and on budget, Director of Engineering Chris Flanigan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55589,57316,159047,154241,159046,110963,160,162,161,83386],"class_list":["post-467290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-city-council","tag-allen-police-department","tag-century-parkway","tag-chris-flanigan","tag-kyle-taliaferro","tag-municipal-bonds","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-police-headquarters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}