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Safety first

Construction of Essential Services Complex is under way

Northville Township residents and room.
officials recently celebrated the ” Additionally, the ESC will be home
groundbreaking of a new 96,000- The Essential Services to a new headquarters for the
square-foot Essential Services Department of Public Works, which
Complex (ESC). Complex will make us has outgrown the current facility, and
Officials said the new $44 million more efficient, more effective to a Northville Parks & Recreation
facility would provide continued building, which will serve as a trail-
exceptional service to the community, and it will save lives. head to Legacy Park, providing parkgo-
with emphasis on public safety. ers with restrooms and running water.
The new complex will include a sec- “We are laying the foundation for a
ond fire station to reduce response a garage to protect cruisers' sensitive safer, stronger and more resilient
times to the northeast quadrant of the electronic equipment, an expanded Northville Township-one that will con-
community, as well as a new state-of- dispatch center and multiple shared tinue to thrive and flourish for years to
the-art police headquarters. It will spaces for Police and Fire to eliminate come,” said Northville Township
have a new temporary holding facility, redundancies, like a shared fitness Manager Todd L. Mutchler.