Cheyenne Police Chief Brian Kozak says work on a new $25 million Public Safety Building is on schedule for an opening in the spring of 2016.

The building will house the Cheyenne Police Department as well as Cheyenne Fire & Rescue Administration and other local emergency responders.

Laramie County voters in 2012 approved spending sixth penny sales tax money to build the new facility to replace the current police department building on Capitol Avenue, which police say is old, overcrowded and in some cases unsafe.

Work on the new building, which is located on the site of the old Dinneen Car Dealership in downtown Cheyenne, began in August of 2014. Chief Kozak says this week that he expects to building to be finished by late March of 2016.

He says public tours will be given for a couple of weeks or so after that, followed by police testing of the facility and its equipment.

He says if all goes as planned, the department should be able to make the final move to the new building by late April.

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