Hogan's Alley (FBI)

The facility is an open-air complex consisting of several buildings constructed to resemble establishments typically seen in an archetypical American small town, including a post office, a pharmacy, a motel, a fully-operational Subway,[2] a pawn shop, a pool hall, a laundromat, a barber, a jewelry store, a bar, a movie theater, and a suburban cul-de-sac, among other businesses and structures, several of which are named after or resemble locations, events, and figures from the FBI's history.

Still, some genuine confusions have happened: the prop mailboxes in Hogan's Alley reportedly had real mail regularly placed in them by confused postal workers, to the point that the FBI ordered them welded shut to stop the mail deliveries; and a contracted painter working at Hogan's Alley once attempted to purchase a car from the facility's fake car dealership, apparently unaware it was not actually for sale.

[6][8] Use of firearms is mostly simulated using blank rounds, Simunitions, paintballs, and projected targets used in tandem with recoil-simulating light guns, though Hogan's Alley is also used for live fire exercises.

[9] Apparently first constructed around 1919 for a series of shooting contests called the National Matches, Hogan's Alley was designed to resemble either a destroyed French village[9] or "a street in a slum section of a town".

This range was clearly inspired by the Camp Perry rendition, and was a 120-foot façade of six house-like structures featuring similar life-size photographic pop-up targets positioned in the windows and doors; agents had to decide whether to shoot based on the circumstances.

The shootout indicated that FBI agents had to handle more "shoot-don't-shoot" situations than regular police officers, and that they needed more diverse and realistic training scenarios to avoid a repeat of the incident.

[6][7][8] The FBI sought the advice and assistance of Hollywood set designers in the planning and construction of Hogan's Alley, to ensure the town looked and felt as real as possible.