Plano Approves $42 Million Max CMAR for Police Training Center

The Plano City Council approved a construction manager-at-risk agreement with CORE Construction Services of Texas, Inc., for a new Police Training Center at its Nov. 9 meeting, Community Impact reported. The official agenda lists the award at $42 million. The city’s official agenda packet, in a memo from Director of Special Projects Peter Braster, recommends the award in an amount not to exceed $42 million, inclusive of a $42,000 pre-construction services fee and all general conditions. Braster told the paper that $42 million is the maximum budget for the project, but that only $42,000 has been approved so far for the pre-construction phase.

The agenda item is RFQ No. 2026-0396-B for a construction manager-at-risk for the City of Plano Police Training Center, Project No. SP-F-00003, to CORE Construction Services of Texas, Inc., “in the amount of $42,000,000,” and authorizing the city manager to execute the necessary documents. The memo describes a two-phase award. The first phase is pre-construction. The second is a guaranteed maximum price of $42 million that includes pre-construction fees, general conditions and construction costs. The memo says this action initiates the pre-construction phase. Official minutes had not been finalized when this report was prepared, and the city’s meeting calendar still marked them “Not available.” The account of the vote comes from Community Impact. The calendar lists the regular City Council meeting for 7 p.m. Monday in the Senator Florence Shapiro Council Chambers, with a preliminary open meeting at 6 p.m.

A larger center on 14th Street, paid from a 2025 bond

The official memo says the project will replace the existing 21,904-square-foot Plano Police Training Facility at 4921 14th Street with a new building of about 33,000 square feet, designed by Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, and will include demolition of the current facility. The memo lists cadet classrooms, an indoor tactical village, a gym and locker area, an Emergency Vehicle Operations Course classroom, and an expansion of the EVOC concrete pad. Community Impact, citing city documents, also said the new facility will include an indoor 25-lane firing range.

Community Impact said the new facility will be built with funds from the May 2025 bond election, with $51 million of the $647 million in that bond package allocated for training center renovations. This is a contract award under that already-approved city bond, not a new bond election and not a school-district proposition. The paper, citing its previous reporting, said the current training center was built in 1990 and has never been renovated, and that the council approved a design contract for the new facility on May 11. The official memo says funding for the item is available in the 2026-27 Police Training Center Facility Fund.

The official agenda lists the Plano Municipal Center at 1520 K Avenue, Plano, Texas 75074.

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