Slippery Rock University's Police Department will receive a new headquarters building.

Pennsylvania’s Office of the Budget awarded a $850,000 grant through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. The grant will be used to develop a new facility that will house SRU’s University Police Department, according to a Monday news release from the university.

The joint recipients of the RACP grant are Slippery Rock Township and the SRU Foundation.

The new grant will be added to the previous $750,000 RACP grant the recipients received last year. Both amounts are being matched by the SRU Foundation. These grants will help fund the first phase of a larger project that will house SRU’s U.S. Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program in the same 26,560-square-foot facility as the university police.

The phase of the project funded by the RACP grant is estimated at $3.5 million and will be used to provide a new parking lot, site utilities and the university police station. The total cost of the entire site project is $9.5 million, the news release stated.

Work on the project is expected to begin in summer, 2023.