The new facility would also house Macomb County's emergency operations center and a Michigan State Police crime laboratory. It will be built in about 18 months, says Macomb Community College president Albert Lorenzo.
No cost estimates on the various facilities have been released.
The plan hinges on a vote by a county committee this week that will determine whether the college gets the land.
"I don't think you will find another center like this in the Great Lakes or possibly in the country," Lorenzo says.
The academy would be tied into three training centers already at the site. Another 10-acre section of land at the location would be used to build a new Macomb Public Works office, says Macomb County Commissioner Phil DiMaria. The Eastpointe Democrat is chairman of the Macomb Board of Commissioners' judiciary and public safety committee that will vote Wednesday on donating the 10 acres to the college. He says the county owns 25 acres of land at the site and donated two acres to the college in 1996 for construction of the exiting facilities.
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