BRISTOW — Drinking too many beers at a summer concert could land you in here.
It’s a new 1,350 square foot building behind one of the region’s largest live music venues — Jiffy Lube Live. It’s an outpost for Prince William County police, and for emergency medical services.
It’s a temporary home for unruly concert goers and those who become sick and in need of first aid.
The building replaces an old trailer that stood for nearly 25 years. On the medical side, two medical cots sit along the walls nearby a cache of medication like Ibuprofen, aspirin, and Zantac treating everything from headaches, to heartburn, to sunburn.
There are double doors that open to a parking lot where gurneys can be used to load patients onto an ambulance in the event they need to go to a hospital.
On the police side, there’s a check-in desk and two holding cells, also known as the drunk tank. Heavy doors are used to lock someone in a room where the only piece of a furniture is a wood bench with a pipe for officers for which to attach handcuffs.
The walls of the cell look like drywall, but they’re actually a three-quarter inch thick high-impact energy board.
“You can punch it but you’re not getting out of there,” said Jim Lilly, of NVA Contracting of Nokesville.
He owns the contracting firm hired by Live Nation, owner of Jiffy Lube Live, to build the new substation at a cost of about half a million dollars, he said.
Live Nation covered the cost of the construction. On Friday afternoon, as Foreigner was set to take the stage later that night for a summer concert, Lilly, and his crew laid out doughnuts for the police and emergency medical workers.
Like most, it’s been a busy summer at Jiffy Lube Live. Still to come this year, acts like Rascal Flatts, Imagine Dragons, Chicago, and Jason Aldean will take the stage.Â
The amphitheater seats 25,000 people. The lawn behind it can hold 15,000 people. And there are 10,000 reserved seats. 
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