[Music] the city of Edina and other owners of the South Metro Public Safety Training Facility recently celebrated the start of construction on a new Tactical training building a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site on Brar Boulevard October 15th the new 6,524 Square ft L-shaped building will sit on the south side of the property with garage doors at each end for police training most of the building will be one level but a mezzanine with stairs will allow for Second Story training scenarios it's designed to fit three vehicles at once which will be especially helpful during winter training the facility will be used by the owner agencies Edina Bloomington Eden Prairie and the Metropolitan airports commission other local and federal agencies will be able to rent the new facility for an hourly fee training will include building searches use of force techniques and traffic enforcement no live ammunition will be used in the facility only simulated Firearms will be used there in addition to a bathroom and mechanical room the building will mostly offer open space for flexible training needs for law enforcement the building searches a lot of times you need larger rooms you need different doorway angles you need different entry points or exit points points and this building is going to be customizable to give allow us that opportunity to be able to set up different layouts to be able to um change to the different tactics that we need to train on the new building is expected to be complete sometime this winter