The new Salem police station is set to open in October. (Ron Cooper/Special to Salem Reporter)
Construction is moving ahead on schedule for the new Salem police station.
Northeast Liberty Street is expected to reopen on Monday. Northeast Division Street and the lanes that will become southbound on Liberty Street will remain closed until the end of August.
Salem police Lt. Ben Bales said the department is planning to start moving into the building in mid-October.
He said construction crews are doing finishing work like cabinetry and siding on the outside of the building.
Next week, Bales said crews will pour the top slab of concrete in the parking garage.
Liberty Street will reopen Monday after a months long closure for street and traffic changes around the new Salem Police headquarters. (Courtesy/City of Salem)
Photographer Ron Cooper and his wife Penny moved to Salem in 1969 to take a job as photographer at the Oregon Statesman (later the Statesman Journal). Their three children, Monica, Kimberly, and Christopher, attended and graduated from Salem public schools. Cooper retired from the Statesman Journal in 2001 but, has continued his passion for photography in many ways, including as a photographer for the Salem Reporter.
