Rescue 4: Vacant Police Building Costs City $15,000 Per Month
Building Formerly Used As Police Academy Headquarters
"We've tried to get out of that lease, but the owner would not allow us to," said James Tate, Detroit police spokesman. "It's such a dilapidated building. It's only being used at this point for storage and also for some training for our special response team."The windows of the former police building are boarded up, the doors are locked, the lights off and graffiti covers the outside walls.Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick announced last week that cuts in jobs and transportation would be necessary to help reduce a budget deficit estimated at $230 million. Taxpayers say because the city is in financial trouble, it should find a way out of the lease agreement or determine how the building that's being paid for can be put to use, Rescue 4 reported.City officials told Waste Watchers that they're open to ideas on how to make use of the structure, which has 56,000 square feet of available space.




























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