The District’s proposed forensics laboratory, a critical and long-awaited crime-fighting facility, will not be finished until at least 2011, two years later than a timeline released one year ago, the D.C. Council recently learned.

Construction of the $218 million Consolidated Forensics Laboratory is now slated to start in 2009, Office of Property Management Director Lars Etzkorn told the council’s public safety committee during a recent hearing. Last spring, former Mayor Anthony Williams’ administration anticipated ground breaking in 2007, but by December it was delayed until 2008.