Bovis Lend Lease developing Pinellas safety facilities

Lend Lease's Bovis Lend Lease business has been awarded the contract to build a new Public Safety Facilities and Centralized Communications Center for Pinellas County in Largo. The project has a total budget of $81.4 million including all design, development, construction, furnishings and equipment. The campus will include an emergency operations center, a call center, EMS, and sheriff's dispatch center, and the sheriff's administrative and operational headquarters.

Occupying a large portion of the 40-acre site, the new public safety facilities and centralized communications center calls for the complete demolition of site's existing buildings and construction of the sheriff's administrative building, emergency operations and dispatch centers, an 807-space parking garage, an energy plant, and the sheriff's vehicle maintenance and communications building.

The project is scheduled to break ground in October and will take about two years to complete.