Cottage Grove

• Cottage Grove and Woodbury provide police, fire, and emergency medical services using an integrated public safety model. This allows all three disciplines to work cooperatively to serve the community while reducing costs through shared services. In-service training is a critical component in supporting this model and plays a crucial role in supporting staff who train together as a team.
• The current locations available for hosting this type of training are insufficient and local emergency responders are traveling long distances to accomplish their training needs. This facility will better prepare the region’s emergency responders for doing their work – today and as the region continues to grow in the future.
• The flexible training space will allow multiple public safety agencies and disciplines to work collaboratively, and encourage mutually beneficial relationships between its partners, improving the quality of training they could attain separately.
• The facility will create opportunities for hosting community-based safety education and training such as CPR, firearms, and recreational vehicle safety training.

The project budget is estimated at $20.5 million. The State of Minnesota provided $1.46 million for predesign and design of the building and an additional $9.5 million bonding appropriation to construct, furnish, and equip the facility. The South Washington County Telecommunications Commission and South Washington Watershed District agreed to contribute funding for the project. Cottage Grove and Woodbury will split the remaining costs to construct the facility.

Construction is expected to begin in the fall of 2018 and be completed in 2019.

The Cities of Cottage Grove and Woodbury, along with LEO A Daly and RJM Construction, held a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 11, 2018. 

• City of Cottage Grove
• City of Woodbury
• LEO A Daly, Architect
• RJM Construction

Questions about the project should be directed to Cottage Grove Police Captain Greg Rinzel at 651-458-6004 or grinzel@cottagegrovemn.gov, or Woodbury Police Commander Kris Mienert at 651-714-3600 or kris.mienert@woodburymn.gov. 

Exterior views of the HERO Center




Interior/Lobby View of HERO Center