Borough of Dumont Municipal Building and Police Headquarters

Challenged with the need for a new police and municipal facility on a unique landscape, the Borough of Dumont commissioned RSC to design a facility that would fulfill their programmatic needs while respecting the site’s topography.

This three-story, 30,000 s.f. facility, which houses the Borough of Dumont’s municipal police, Borough administration, and municipal court programs, needed to be designed on a narrow site with limited frontage. RSC’s unique solution provides police functions on a lower level, municipal offices on the second level, and courtroom and meeting spaces on the third level. The design incorporates the existing slope in order to provide separate parking and entrance levels, with a more prominent frontage on the main street for the civic functions, and a more discreet frontage on a side street for police access.