By Joe Jarosz
Northeast News
June 3, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — By the end of the year, KCPD East Patrol officers should be in their new home.

At last week’s Public Safety and Emergency Services committee meeting, city architect Eric Bosch provided committee members with an update on the construction of the East Patrol Crime Lab and Campus. Construction is in full swing on the $74-million project. Late last year, the city council unanimously supported naming the East Patrol Division Station and Crime Lab Campus for the late civil rights leader Leon Jordan. The official campus name is the Leon Mercer Jordan East Patrol Campus. The new station will be located at 27th Street and Prospect Avenue.

Bosch noted the project is coming along nicely and should be completed by this fall. Currently, interior work is being completed in the campus portion. Once rain stops long enough, contractors will be able to begin streetscape work along 26th and 27th Streets and Prospect and Brooklyn Avenues.

“We’re working with neighborhood associations to inform them what streets will be closed at what times,” Bosch said.

With regard to the crime lab, Bosch said that probably won’t open until at least 2016. He noted a lot of equipment needs to be transferred for the lab.

With at least 100 workers on site every day completing different tasks, Bosch said there’s a lot of good communication and coordination at the construction site. Committee chair John Sharp said the project has exceeded everyone’s goals.

“A lot of folks were skeptical, but I’ve heard nothing but compliments on the project,” Sharp said.

Bosch added residents can stay up-to-date on this, and other Kansas City Police Department, projects by visiting the website www.saferkc.com.