POLICE ANNEX FACILITY FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA
MASSEY COURTHOUSE COMPLEX Fairfax County Department of Public works and Environmental Services (FDPWES
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Massey Building, Massey Annex, and adjacent small house are scheduled for demolition in 2018/2019. A new master planning effort will include assessment of priority county uses for the site, including future criminal justice, public safety and human services’ needs, as well as coordination with the City of Fairfax and George Mason University. The last comprehensive master plan for the site was developed in 2002 as part of the Courthouse Expansion and Renovation project. It was amended in 2008 to include the Less Secure Shelter II. The new master plan will provide the county with a road map for future growth on the site in a logical and systematical development. The goal of the master plan is to take into account current development needs while keeping in mind and planning for future developments. Major areas of consideration will include the Massey Building, the Old Courthouse, and existing surface parking lots. The disposition of other county-owned real estate assets within the City of Fairfax at and near the Massey location may also be evaluated for opportunities, and the potential for public private partnerships redevelopment will be assessed.
Police Annex Building
BACKGROUND
The Massey Complex, also known as the county’s public safety campus, is a 47.8 acre part of Fairfax County surrounded by the City of Fairfax. See project map location below. In 1969 Fairfax County opened the Massey Building, a 13-story building, as the main seat of the Fairfax County Government. Extraordinary population growth through the 1970s and ‘80s dictated a new building for the seat of government and the main county offices moved to the Government Center campus, approximately four miles to the west, in 1992. The Massey Building then became headquarters to the Police and Fire & Rescue Departments. In 2017 both of these departments moved from the Massey to a new Public Safety Headquarters building on the Government Center campus. The Massey building, at nearly the 50-year mark, has reached the end of its usefulness as a structure. The building contains many asbestos laden building products, which were the norm in the 1960s, along with very small floor plates, antiquated building systems, spalling precast concrete, and a window system that is expensive to replace. During the plan amendment for the Fairfax County Courthouse, the Massey Building was planned for future demolition once a new headquarters for Police and Fire & Rescue was developed.
FAIRFAX COUNTY MAP
SITE OVERVIEW
The existing Police Annex building is located at 10600 Page Avenue, Fairfax VA as part of the Massey Courthouse complex. The site is bounded by Page Avenue to the north, Judicial Drive to the south, Chain Bridge Road to the east, and Judicial Drive to the west. The Police Annex Building is operated by Fairfax Police department and is leased by Fairfax County. The structure dates back to 1799 when Richard Ratcliffe sold four acres to Fairfax County for the new location of the Fairfax County Courthouse. Mr. Ratcliffe owned all the land surrounding the four-acre parcel. He then proceeded to build a tavern where the Bank of America now sits. In 1800 he sold an additional six acres to the county to accommodate a jail, stocks, stable, and other associated buildings. It was then that he began to lay out the Town of Providence around the courthouse. The Town of Providence was approved by the Virginia General Assembly in 1805. This name was officially changed in 1874 to the Town of Fairfax and in 1961 became an independent city leaving a now 47.8-acre parcel of Fairfax County in the center of the city.
Off-Site Program
Adjacency Diagram – Combined Facility
Massey Complex Program
Remote Location Program
Adjacency Diagram – Separated Facility
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MASSEY COURTHOUSE COMPLEX SITE PLAN
Option 1 is to relocate the Property The Police storage facility is located in the upper region of the Massey Courthouse complex. The Fairfax County Masterplan for future development recommends the option of a combined facility or split facility. A new master plan will be developed to provide a coordinated long-term plan to meet the needs of the complex’s multiple stakeholders.
& Evidence and Warrant Desk away from the courthouse complex to a remote location within a reasonable proximity to the courthouse and with easy and direct access for officers.
Option 2 is to relocate the property and evidence operations to a new location remote from the courthouse complex. This would also serve as the primary P&E associated officer and public support areas. However, the warrant desk and a satellite P&E staging area for evidence pickup/drop-off supporting officers and prosecutors during trials would remain at the courthouse complex adjacent to the courthouse. The decision to keep together or to split into two facilities is partly dependent on location options for a remote facility.
Police Annex Building
ADA Parking
Annex Complex
One of the deliverables of this Phase I of the P&E bond project programming will be a conceptual site plan showing the overall footprint of each facility and conceptual floor plan which will be used to find potential locations. The relocated facility off the courthouse complex could be either new construction or a retrofit of an existing structure if suitable space is found such as a warehouse facility. /3
POLICE ANNEX STORAGE BUILDING OFF-SITE PROGRAM
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MASSEY COURTHOUSE COMPLEX WARRANT DESK
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POLICE ANNEX STORAGE BUILDING REMOTE LOCATION PROGRAM
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