The City of Greenville opened its Public Safety Campus and Municipal Complex at 204 Halton Road in the fall of 2024, with an official ribbon cutting on April 8, 2025.
The campus houses Greenville Police Department and Greenville City Fire Department administration, a joint Emergency Communications Center (EOC) as well as Municipal Court. Municipal services, including building permits and business licenses, are located on the second floor in a user-friendly one-stop shop. The facility has more than 500 parking spaces making it more convenient for contractors and those doing business with court.
Municipal Court was previously located at 426 N. Main Street. The aging facility was sold to help fund the purchase and renovation of the Halton campus. “We’ve had a number of flooding incidents in there. It was very expensive to heat and cool because they couldn’t put in central units except in the courtrooms. It’s much more pleasant here. This is brighter, lighter, and gives us a lot of room to move around,” said Judge Matt Hawley.
The majority of police administration personnel were housed at the county’s Law Enforcement Center, located at 4 McGee Street, which was built in 1976 and is also occupied by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office. According to Police Chief Howie Thompson, offices meant for one person were being used by up to five officers. Detectives were working in cubicles placed in the main corridors. “We had outgrown that building,” said Thompson. “We are happy to have to provide a better workspace for our employees and improved service to our citizens.”
In November of 2021, City Council authorized the purchase of the 126,000-square-foot building on 6.86 acres from the Fluor Corporation, as well as an additional 5.9-acre tract. Built in the 1990s and previously renovated in 2014, the City invested additional funds for security, technology and remodeling.
Additions include a Traffic Management Center used by City engineers to manage congestion and study road safety and operations.
“When we have an incident on our road, a crash or maybe just some utility work that has traffic really congested, we can see that information here and work with our emergency responders,” said Engineering Services Director Clint Link. “We can adjust the signal timings from this center right here to help flush traffic out if we need to do that, or to give it some extended green time to a certain direction of traffic.”
The campus at 204 Halton Road also houses internal departments and divisions including Human Resources, the employee health clinic and Information Technology.
Written by the City of Greenville.