Politics & Government

Report: County To Build New Public Safety Training Academy In Gaithersburg

Gazette: The facility will likely be built in 2014 near Montgomery Village.

Montgomery County plans to build a new public safety training academy in Gaithersburg, replacing the more than 40-year-old facility at the intersection of Great Seneca Highway and Darnestown Road, The Gazette reports.

The new facility will be located on Snouffer School Road near Fessenden Lane, on a vacant site called the Webb Tract, just outside Montgomery Village’s North Village community, according to the report.

County spokesperson Patrick Lacefield told The Gazette the land the academy currently sits on could be put to better use. It sits in the middle of the Great Seneca Science Corridor.

“That land is incredibly valuable for taking some of our biotech sector to the next level,” Lacefield told The Gazette

Read the full story on The Gazette.


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