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The Department of Investigation has finally acquired a new large office space in 180 Maiden Lane in Downtown Manhattan.
Since Mark Peters was confirmed as the new commissioner of the Department of investigation, the agency’s staff has doubled. (Photo via Twitter)

The Department of Investigation is finally bringing all their staff of 700 employees together under one roof, which were previously scattered across the city in five separate offices. The deal to acquire 276,000 square feet inside 180 Maiden Lane has been completed after long delays.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Investigation confirmed that on Tuesday morning, September 19, an agreement was signed by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which is in charge of several city agencies’ leasing transactions.

Since February 2014, when Mark Peters was confirmed as the new commissioner, the staff that the agency has had doubled in size. Peters provided an example of the agency’s growth, saying that in the 1980 there were only 17 peace officers in the ranks, and today those same ranks have expanded to include 150 officers.

Peters said, “When you’re doing an investigation, you want everyone involved in the same room, and this space is going to make that so much easier.” He also noted the additional time inspectors wasted in transit traveling between the agency’s multiple offices.

Crain’s reports, “DOI has been in negotiations for the space for nearly a year, but City Hall delayed several agencies from completing office leases in recent months. The 180 Maiden Lane headquarters will include a training facility for new recruits, including dedicated space for the agency’s firearms training simulation, and gives the department, which plans to increase its ranks to 200 peace officers, room to grow. The city can spend up to $56 million on the build-out, with the landlord, a partnership between MHP Real Estate Services and Clarion Partners, paying $21 million and the city funding the rest. DOI’s purview has increased in recent years. In 2014 the agency added an inspector general with oversight of the NYPD, and the next year took in NYC Health and Hospitals’ previously internal inspector general. Peters said the increased responsibilities have taxed the antiquated offices.”

Peters explained, “We have literally a surveillance room that was set up in a kitchen space because we had no other area for it.”

By Rebecca Gold

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