Palatine police officially moved in to their new police headquarters, 595 North Hicks Road on Tuesday, January 17, 2012. The police department was formerly in the renovated Palatine High School basement at 200 East Wood Street. The Palatine police shared the building with the Palatine Village Hall since 1979. The new location is about five blocks to the northeast of the old location.
The new police headquarters is a 70,000 square foot building built at a cost of $19.6 million, which offers necessary modernization needed by the police department, including improved prisoner processing, improved complaint and reporting facilities, improved evidence storage, a training room, and more.
The former police facility will become an emergency operations center and Nurses Lending Closet.
A new Mariano’s Fresh Market is targeting a grand opening by the end of February 2012 just to the south of the new police station.
Mariano’s store in Palatine is about 5,000 square feet larger than the first Mariano’s that opened in Arlington Heights in the Summer of 2010. The Mariano’s store will feature several specialty areas, including a coffee and gelato cafe, sushi bar, sandwich and brick oven pizza shop and a large bakery.
The property was formerly a shopping center with a Kmart, just north of the intersection of Hicks Road and Northwest Highway.
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Satellite view of the new police station location, and the old location on Wood Street (lower left).