The engagement
What we did
Terre Haute sits along the banks of the Wabash River in west-central Indiana, a former railroad hub that has grown into a modern regional center. The city’s police department operated from three separate downtown buildings that had been acquired and joined together over time to function as a single facility, an arrangement that constrained the department’s operations and limited usable area within the combined structures. The Center for Public Safety was retained to examine sites around the city and to conduct a space needs study for a new police facility. The engagement paired a quantified current and future program for the department with a survey of candidate locations, giving city decision makers both the space requirements and the site options needed to plan a purpose-built replacement. The result provides Terre Haute with a planning document that can carry directly into facility design.
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