Commerce City North Range Police Substation Moves Toward Construction Design
Commerce City’s planned North Range police substation has cleared a key city approval and is moving from development design toward construction design, advancing a facility intended to address longer distances between police substations in the city’s northern area.
City Council passed Ordinance Z25-0005 unanimously on April 6, 2026. The approval moves the project into its next design phase, where the city is expected to complete construction documents and continue advancing the facility toward delivery.
The substation is planned for Commerce City’s North Range. The city describes the project as a response to growth and service-distance concerns, including the geographic gap between existing police substations.
What the approval changes
The project was in the development-design phase before the April 6 approval. It is now progressing toward construction design, a step that focuses on turning the project’s development plans into the more detailed documents needed to advance the facility.
That does not mean construction has started. The city’s public project information identifies the next phase as construction design and continued work toward delivery, rather than announcing a groundbreaking or construction-start date.
The planned facility is intended to give the Commerce City Police Department a closer operational presence in the North Range. The city has identified the distance between substations as a public-safety concern, particularly as growth increases the area served by city departments.
The purpose is prospective: the substation is being planned to improve police access in a developing part of Commerce City. The approval itself does not establish that police response times have already improved, because the facility is not yet open.
Part of broader city planning
The substation is also connected to the city’s broader capital-planning work. Commerce City has tied public-safety and capital decisions to its 2026 strategic goals, budget development and Capital Improvement Program.
That makes the project more than a design exercise. The city is treating the North Range facility as part of its longer-term effort to match public services and infrastructure with growth. The approval advances the project, while future budget and capital decisions will remain part of the path toward construction and delivery.
What happens next
The immediate next step is completing the construction-design phase and advancing construction documents. Those documents will allow the city to continue moving the facility toward delivery, but the city has not announced a final construction-start date, groundbreaking date or completion date on its public project page.
The public project information also does not identify a complete final construction cost. As the project moves through design and the city develops its budget and Capital Improvement Program, those details will be important for residents tracking the project’s financial commitment and timeline.
For now, the confirmed milestone is the unanimous April 6 council approval of Ordinance Z25-0005 and the project’s transition from development design toward construction design. The North Range substation remains an advancing planned facility, not an operating police location.
Sources
- North Range Police Substation, City of Commerce City
- 2026 City Council Retreat sets the stage for refreshed Strategic Plan, City of Commerce City
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