Construction Underway on San Mateo Police Facility

Pankow builds for  high seismics and high environmental performance

Pasadena, October 22, 2007 -

Charles Pankow Builders, Ltd. (CPBL) has been selected to build the new 44,800-square-foot police facility for the City of San Mateo. The project, which is located at 200 Franklin Parkway in the Bay Meadows Phase I development, is the first new police facility to be built in San Mateo in over 40 years.

The project consists of a two-story police station and ancillary functions. The main building will house the City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), dispatch and communications, holding facility and a subterranean firing range. A 53,900-square-foot secure subterranean garage provides parking for official vehicles and employees with additional surface parking spaces for employees and visitors for a site total of 186 parking spaces.

Not only is this Essential Services Facility designed to a high seismic standard, but also as a high performance building. The police station is designed and being constructed to obtain a LEED silver rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Pankow managed the preconstruction process and began construction in May of 2007. During the next few months concrete slab and walls will be installed in the underground parking garage followed by structural steel. Completion is scheduled for the February 2009. Pankow worked previously with the City of San Mateo on the construction of the LEED Silver-certified San Mateo Public Library. Architect on the project is Ventura, California-based Leach Mounce Architects; Forell/Elsesser is the structural engineer.