More than two years since it was financially approved, the exterior of the first substation for the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office appears to be mostly complete, featuring hitching posts along sidewalks and a glass facade entrance on the nearly 2-acre plot of land next to Falcon Fire Station #1.
Upon walking through the entrance of the new building is a mapped outline of El Paso County that largely blends in with the new tile floor, which, like most of the facility’s interior, has yet to be filled in.
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Sheriff Joseph Roybal said for the first time that the facility would not open until 2027 due to supply-chain issues while hosting media members for a walk-through on Wednesday.
The Sheriff’s Office had stated in multiple news releases, as recently as February, that the facility was expected to open during the “fall of 2026”, but that timeline shifted in recent weeks.
The Falcons substation tour came 13 days before Roybal’s first bid for reelection as sheriff, which sits on the…
