Mesquite Police Department Headquarters
Reynobond ACM Punctuates Mesquite's New State-Of-The-Art Police Headquarters
Located in North Central Texas, just east of Dallas, the city of Mesquite was once a quiet farming community producing hay, cotton, corn and sugar until it was incorporated as a suburb of Dallas. In 1960, when the city’s previous police station was built, there were approximately 27,500 residents; today that number has grown to 136,750. To accommodate the growing need for police services, the City of Mesquite commissioned Brinkley Sargent Architects of Dallas, TX, to design a new, state-of-the-art facility for the Mesquite Police Station. The resulting 90,000 square-foot facility, completed in December of 2008, has top-notch security features, an emergency operations center, property and evidence area, a high-tech briefing room, space for officers to work comfortably and room for the department to grow into.
Featured on the exterior of the building is a product also known as state of the art: Reynobond® Aluminum Composite Material from Alcoa Architectural Products, Eastman, GA. NOW Specialties of Carrollton, TX, fabricated and installed 11,200 square feet of 4mm, PE-cored Reynobond featuring a Bright Silver Metallic Colorweld® 300XL paint finish. The panels were used on the exterior façade and soffits, within a design that called for the largest panels to