Bomb Scare at Nationstar Mortgage in Coppell This AM

As if our lives are not already stressful enough, what with the five Dallas police ambushed and shot on July 7 in downtown Dallas, the terrorist (or whatever) attack in Nice, France that friends of mine were 100 yards from, then three police down in Baton Rouge  yesterday… the poor employees at Nationstar Mortgage in Coppell had to clear out this morning because of a bomb threat.

HousingWire.com reports that the corporate headquarters for Nationstar Mortgage, “home to approximately 900 of the company’s employees, sat vacant for several hours Monday morning as a bomb threat forced the company’s employees to evacuate the building.”

Good news: the threat was not made against Nationstar per se, but rather a nearby, unaffiliated building.

 “We were notified by Dallas police that there was a bomb threat at a property not owned or occupied by Nationstar but in a vicinity near our Cypress Waters location early this morning,” Kelly Ann Doherty, Nationstar’s senior vice president of corporate communications, said in a statement provided to HousingWire.

“At the police department’s request and in the best interest of our employees’ safety we closed that facility,” Doherty continued. “We received notice from the Dallas Police Department recently that the area was clear and our employees can now return to the Cypress Waters building.”

Nationstar’s corporate headquarters is located in Coppell, Texas, and is located on Cypress Waters Blvd., so the company often refers to it as the Cypress Waters location.

Sources at Nationstar told HousingWire the company’s headquarters was evacuated sometime around 8 a.m. The  “all clear” was given around 10 a.m., so employees were out just for a couple of hours.

Sidenote: where do you hang out when there is a bomb threat at work? Is this new information we are going to have to “arm” ourselves with now?

The diligent reporters at HousingWire got a little run-around, however, when trying to get details from the police:

HW contacted the Dallas Police Department for information on the threat, but was referred to the Coppell Police Department for further details on the investigation.

The Coppell Police Department told HousingWire that it was not involved in the investigation or search of Nationstar and the surrounding buildings and referred HousingWire back to the Dallas Police Department for more information.