The General Services Administration has a plan to build or renovate eight federal courthouses to the tune of $947 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This investment in our federal courthouses will serve as a catalyst for economic development in these local communities, while addressing the space constraints and security challenges in these aging facilities,” said GSA administrator Denise Turner Roth, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agency will spend $787 million on new federal courthouses in Nashville, Tenn.; Des Moines, Iowa; Greenville, S.C.; Anniston, Ala.; and San Antonio, Texas, plus new courthouse annexes in Toledo, Ohio; Charlotte, N.C.; and Savannah, Ga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another $160 million will be spent to renovate the James M. Ashley and Thomas W.L. Ashley U.S. Courthouse in Toledo, the Charles R. Jonas Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Charlotte and the Tomochichi U.S. Courthouse in Savannah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another $29.5 million will be spent on feasibility studies and preparation work at court facilities in Harrisburg, Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The majority of the funded projects have been on the Judiciary’s construction priority list for more than 15 years,” said Judge D. Brooks Smith, chair of the Judiciary’s Space and Facilities Committee, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Working with the GSA, we have planned appropriate facilities that satisfy the housing and security needs of these courts in an innovative and cost-efficient manner.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The federal judiciary received a 1.2 percent bump in its 2016 budget, totaling $6.78 billion in December. In a release at that time, the judiciary noted that it had 11 courthouses on its construction priority list and only a single courthouse had been funded in the last five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The House and Senate appropriations committees still have to approve the GSA’s spending plans before construction can move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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