Commissioners Explore Rehab Of Courthouse Square

August 17, 2023 4:42 am

Washington County Commissioners began their August meeting by rejecting submissions for engineering services, consulting and bid specs for repairs to the Courthouse Square Building. According to Commissioner Chairwoman Diana Irey-Vaughan, commissioners are revisiting the idea of rehabilitating Courthouse Square, three years after purchasing the Crossroads Center Building. Irey-Vaughn states that the building has been found to be structurally sound despite earlier concerns that contributed to the purchase of the new building. She further indicates that the county needs to have more office space and the Courthouse Square building would go a long way to fulfill that need. Commissioner Larry Maggi was in favor of the rehabilitation three years ago and still is today. He indicated that the county does need space. He is in favor of the project and now needs to see what the costs of rehabilitation will be and where that money will be found. Maggi was reluctant in his support of the purchase of the Crossroads Building saying that he felt that the new building could have come at a better price. The construction firm SiteLogIQ has been hired to serve as the construction manager for the project.