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Months after opening, Palo Alto police headquarters is largely empty
It’s been nearly six months since Palo Alto leaders celebrated the grand opening of the city’s new public safety building, a $123.5-million facility near California Avenue that took decades of planning and five years of construction. Most of the work on the three-story building at 250 Sherman Ave. was completed by the summer of 2025,... The post Months after opening, Palo Alto police headquarters is largely empty appeared first on San José Spotlight .
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According to San Jose Spotlight’s source item, Months after opening, Palo Alto police headquarters is largely empty, It’s been nearly six months since Palo Alto leaders celebrated the grand opening of the city’s new public safety building, a $123.5-million facility near California Avenue that took decades of planning and five years of construction. Most of the work on the three-story building at 250 Sherman Ave. was completed by the summer of 2025,… The post Months after opening, Palo Alto police headquarters is largely empty appeared first on San José Spotlight .
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