Lanier building private workout space at police HQ

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier is building a workout space for yoga, step aerobics and other activities on a secure floor of police headquarters that can only be accessed by Lanier and her top staff. The renovations are not part of the city’s capital budget and are being performed by the police department’s maintenance staff, The Washington Examiner has confirmed.

“There is no gym being built,” Lanier spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said in an e-mail late Tuesday in response to Examiner inquiries regarding rumors of the construction of a gym. “We have identified an open space for group fitness activities.”