Owner: 

Town of Scituate

Architect: 

Dore & Whittier Architects

Location: 

Scituate, MA

Size: 

28,818 sf

This new 28,818-square-foot facility will be the headquarters of both the Scituate Police and Fire Departments, and will include a joint dispatch center and emergency operations center. Located on a six-acre site on Chief Justice Cushing Highway (Route 3), the facility is expected to increase response times of emergency personnel in the northern and western portions of Scituate.

The facility will be divided into separate police and fire areas, with administrative offices, public records storage, prisoner processing and detention, lockers and a fitness room, and a training and community meeting room. The building will include three bays for fire apparatus and a sally port for the safe transfer of prisoners between police vehicles and detention facility.