Albemarle Supervisors approves rental of former J.C. Penney as public safety operations center
Albemarle County will move forward with the lease of a former department store at Fashion Square Mall to serve as a new operations facility for fire and police.
“It does have a central location, it’s got a very large warehouse, with a great loading dock,” said Lance Stewart, the county’s director of facilities and environmental services. “All together it’s about 33,000 square feet which is almost a third of the J.C. Penney site.
On July 20, Supervisors authorized a lease and signaled a willingness to pay over $3 million in capital costs to get it ready for public safety work.
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