Project: Public Safety Center – Conceptual Facility and Site Design 

The existing Hayward Police station no longer meets the space, operational, staffing and security requirements for the HPD.  Built in 1975, the existing facility is near the end of its useful life and functionally obsolete. The facility is undersized, poorly configured, outdated, and requires security and technology improvements to meet HPD’s current needs. With the police department headquarters building, currently there is also a jail. We would also like to explore the possibility of integrating an indoor shooting range into the design for the new PSC.

 

Two locations have been identified as possible sites for the new Public Safety Center and in 2020 were preliminarily analyzed for potential project sites. These locations are as follows:

 

• The former California Air National Guard (CANG) site:  This site is located at 1525 West Winton Avenue and Tuskegee Airmen Drive. Eight acres have been designated at the eastern half of the 16.8-acre CANG site for the possible future location of the Public Safety Center (PSC).

 

• The former City Hall Building Site: This site is located between Foothill Boulevard and City Center Drive.  The site is approximately 3.5 open acres, and the street address is 22300 Foothill Blvd. The former City Hall building was demolished in 2020.  The parking structure on the south side of the property which is another 2.3 acres remains and can be refurbished and reused for PSC parking. There is approximately a total of 5.82 acres at ground level this site.

 

The conceptual facility and site design for a new PSC will need to encompass not only current HDP staffing, but it will also need to be designed and built to accommodate future growth. There is also the desire for increased services from the Youth and Family Services Bureau that must be included in the new Public Safety Center. Animal Services, currently located at the City’s Corporation Yard, should also be added to the campus for a more centralized location for all safety-related services. The Crime Scene Technician (CST) Lab should also be integrated into the new PSC. Consequently, satellite police related campuses could eventually be repurposed for other critical City services as all police department related services could be relocated to the new Public Safety Center. All of these options will need to be analyzed for possible inclusion in the conceptual facility and site design plan.