UMW considers purchasing building in Eagle Village for police headquarters

FROM HEADQUARTERS PAGE 1 of their physical ability,” he said. The new location will be optimal, Paino said, because it will be adjacent to Eagle Landing, where 600 on-campus students live, and it will be right across from the main campus.

While Eagle Village is owned by the university, the parking garage complex and stores on the bottom floor are leased out on the market by the UMW Foundation, the private-asset manager for the university. The university is currently assessing the space, Hall said, and evaluating whether or not it would be more beneficial to buy the building instead of leasing the space in the long term. If the university were to purchase the location, the chances of it becoming the permanent police headquarters would become more concrete.

Carson Giocondo, a junior environmental science major, expressed his thoughts on the move.

“I know that some people might not like the police presence increasing on this side of Eagle Village but it’s much more comforting for me personally,” he said. “Longer nights at the HCC have become more common for me as papers and exams are coming near the end of the year. Knowing that there is going to be a higher sense of security around Eagle Landing is much more reassuring especially after the threatening messages on the bridge earlier last month.”