Oldham County hears architects’ plan for new police headquarters at Crestwood

Oldham County officials reviewed schematic designs for a new county police headquarters and training center during a special Fiscal Court meeting, where architects said the plan would renovate part of the existing Crestwood range building and add a single-story 23,188-square-foot addition to consolidate multiple police functions.

Judge Executive David Vogel opened the presentation by saying a new headquarters “will be a significant investment in public safety” and urged a long-lived design: “I believe we need an attractive, well thought out, weather resistant building designed for 50 years or more.”

Architects from JKS Architecture said the proposal responds to crowding, evidence-storage limits and operational needs at the county’s current facilities. JKS representatives Keith Sharp and design architect Josh Vernon described a plan that keeps the range and much of the existing training space while adding a new, essential-facility-compliant wing to house administration, patrol, criminal investigations, evidence processing and secured vehicle storage.

Why it matters: County officials told the architects the department is spread across several locations—headquarters, a separate CID building, an off-site impound/storage area and the firing range—and the proposed project would assemble most functions on one Crestwood campus. Architects said the design aims to improve secure evidence handling, provide interview rooms for victims and children,…