Former Cumming police site to become pocket park, parking lot
The old Cumming police block is being cleared for a pocket park and extra parking, while the department settles into a new 50,933-square-foot home at Cumming City Center.
The former Cumming Police Department site is being demolished to make room for a new pocket park and additional parking, turning one of downtown Cumming’s most recognizable public blocks into a different kind of civic space. The change is already visible: demolition of the former police and municipal court building is complete, and the city has approved the new project for the site.
That shift matters because the police department did not simply move across town. City of Cumming officials said the department and Municipal Court were near completion at Cumming City Center after more than 50 years in the previous location, and the move represents a major reshuffling of public land in the heart of the city. A related post said the new facility replaces a nearly 60-year-old substation just down the street, with 88 officers set to work in the new building.
The new police headquarters is a 50,933-square-foot public safety building set within 17 acres of public park land at Cumming City Center. On the old site, the city is trading a single-purpose building for a pocket park and parking, a combination that should give downtown visitors more places to leave a car while also changing the look and feel of the block. For residents and business owners around downtown Cumming, that means a familiar government site will now serve as part green space, part parking relief, rather than standing as an empty reminder of the city’s old police home.
The project also fits into the larger growth pattern that has defined Cumming in recent years. The city’s 2022-2042 comprehensive plan, adopted Oct. 4, 2022, gives local leaders a long-range framework for handling exactly this kind of change: what to do with older municipal property when departments move into newer facilities. In this case, the parcel is being reused instead of left idle, and the result is a public-facing site that tries to answer two basic downtown needs at once, more parking and more usable open space.
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