Nixa makes new plans for Police Department HQ

The city of Nixa has new plans in the works for its Police Department headquarters following an initiative that failed at the ballot box in 2022.

The municipality has purchased roughly five acres at Leann Drive and Highway 14 for $155,000 that would serve as the site for a one-story, 22,000-square-foot facility, according to a news release. The site is just east of Victory Baptist Church, and the seller was Xtreme Property Holdings LLC, according to Nixa City Council's Sept. 24 agenda.

"We are happy to have worked with thoughtful engineers and mindful city leaders who helped us find the best use of taxpayers' money with a solution that keeps us on budget," city officials said in the release.

Summer Rascoll, director of communications for the city of Nixa, said the project budget is roughly $15 million. Insight Design Architects LLC and Brentwood-based Chiodini Architects are designing the project, which has not yet gone out to bid for a general contractor, she said.

Officials say the Police Department headquarters would be funded through a three-quarter-cent sales tax passed last year. Nixa voters in 2022 rejected a 1-cent general sales tax that, in part, would have paid for a $13 million, three-story new headquarters for the Police Department at a separate city-owned site, according to past reporting.

"After a thorough cost analysis, it has been determined that building a new police facility at an alternative location is the best option," officials said in the release.