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Ground has been broken on a $14-million Merced County courthouse building that is intended to pick up the slack of the overworked and overbooked original courthouse facility down the street.
The Sacramento office of Kitchell is construction manager; West Sacramento-based Brown Construction is the general contractor; and Sacramento-based Nacht & Lewis Architects is the architect of record.
This project will take 16 months to finish, with completion scheduled for September '06.
The courthouse will have 60,000 sq. ft. of useable courtroom and accompanying spaces. It will be constructed of tilt-up concrete panels, structural steel, metal studs, with an elastomeric coating and cornice features.
The interior of the two-story building will house six courtrooms, four deliberation rooms, judges' chambers, offices for court staff, secure evidence storage, record storage, a children's waiting area, sheriff's sub-station, holding cells, underground inmate tunnel (from the jail across the street), public information center and clerical staff stations.
This is the first phase of a three-phase plan to expand justice facilities for the city and county of Merced. The second phase will launch in five years.
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