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Construction bid for Henry County public safety complex approved

A rendering of the new police precinct at the Fairview complex.
A rendering of the new police precinct at the Fairview complex.
By Monroe Roark for the AJC
Sept 30, 2020

The Henry County Board of Commissioners voted at its Sept. 15 regular meeting to approve a $3,941,000 bid for construction of a new public safety complex in the Fairview community on the northern end of the county. The bid came from J.R. Bowman Construction Co., Inc. of McDonough.

The complex will include a police precinct and Fire Station No. 6, all of which to be paid for by the county’s special-purpose local option sales tax. The site for the facility is on Fairview Road near its intersection with Panola Road, adjacent to the Fairview Memorial Gardens cemetery complex.

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