Lexington Ceremony to Recognize Plans for Public Safety Center

Although no dirt was shoveled, Lexington officials have staged a ground breaking for a new public safety operations center.  The facility is being established in the former juvenile detention center on Cisco Road.  The center will bring under one roof the divisions of Emergency Management, Enhanced 9-1-1, and LexCall.  Efforts to build the public safety operations center have been several years in the making.  In 2008, the project stalled with construction costs estimated at 39 million dollars.  By rehabbing existing space, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray says it amounts to 26 million dollars in building costs.  The center is expected to be fully operational by the summer of 2016.?