Since 1986, Provincetown Police Department has used a former funeral home with an apartment upstairs as its headquarters. The building dates back to 1975 and has long been deemed inadequate as a public facility for the town’s law enforcement. Deficiencies, building code violations, and even periodic flooding have plagued the old police station, in addition to its inability to accommodate modern communication equipment; however, the location, cost, and design of a new police headquarters has been a sore point of contention for almost a decade.

The Flansburgh team has already completed programming and design for the project, with a focus on creating an environmentally friendly, programmatically tailored, and state-of-the-art facility. The new Provincetown Police Station will be a 13,900-sf two-story building that helps law enforcement officers to better serve the people of Provincetown. Because of its prominent location on Route 6, the main highway through which most visitors enter the town, the new Provincetown Police Station is designed to represent this Outer Cape community. For example, the incorporation of cedar shingles and board and batten sea walls is key to articulating the civic identity of the building.