Less than a year and a half after breaking ground, officials in Greece have cut the ribbon on the new town police headquarters building at the Town Hall Campus off Long Pond Road. They also surprised former Police Chief Gerald Phelan, the father of current Chief Patrick Phelan, by naming the building in his honor.
The new building is a $9 million project, completed on time and under budget. Greece Supervisor Bill Reilich says the only thing that’s delayed moving the department into the new building has been the March Windstorm and the ongoing flooding along Lake Ontario.
Chief Patrick Phelan says the new 30,000 square foot building is state of the art, and a far cry from the converted sewage treatment plant the department has occupied for more than 40 years. The old department was at the end of a rural lane in a wooded area north of Arcadia High School. Chief Phelan says he’d often find people wandering around the parking lot who would ask him if this was really the police department.
Phelan says there’s no mistaking the new building for anything but.