Did Joe Lombardo name a building after himself?
The Joseph Lombardo Building was recently dedicated in Las Vegas, the first building on the Joint Emergency Training Institute campus. The 50,000-square-foot building has rooms for classes, simulators, and close-contact training.
The law enforcement training institute is paid for through fundraising by the nonprofit Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation at a total estimated cost of $35 million. The foundation's leadership chose to name the building after Lombardo, who served 26 years as a police officer and eight years as the sheriff of Clark County before being elected governor of Nevada in 2022.
Lombardo is not currently involved with the foundation, last serving as a board member in 2014.
Momentum for the institute came after the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in which 60 people died. It was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.