Bryanisbest said:

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woodiewood said:

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Why can't the county buy the Macy's building....it in Brazos County.

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Bryan is county seat. If they moved the county seat to College Station you would never hear the end of it.

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No place to put it in College Station. CS is fast running out of room for new development with no options. The jail and the juvenile facilities are situated on a large tract in west Bryan. They would probably put it out there. The jail is still fairly new. Can't have the jail separated from the courthouse by miles.

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Jails are separated from the courthouse by miles in other counties. This isn't new.

Looks to me that you could add a two or three story addition to the existing court house on the SW side and add as much or more square footage as the new building will give you and then if omre parking is needed eventually, add additional parking on the east side.

If you made the courthouse building into a full rectangle, you would add about 9,500 square feet of indoor area per floor on its SW corner.

What is the square footage of the newly proposed building?

BTW, the project cost is $61 million.

There is actually a LOT of underutilized land around the courthouse, in all directions. If (and this is a big "if") the county commissioners decided a whole new courthouse was needed, there would be plenty of places around there to build it.

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To show all the land around the courthouse for building an expansion.

Reposting photo for the comment above.

That isn't necessarily the area I was referring to. Was referring to the downtown area at large. Particularly land to the east (and somewhat south) of the current courthouse.

AggiePhil said:

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That isn't necessarily the area I was referring to. Was referring to the downtown area at large. Particularly land to the east (and somewhat south) of the current courthouse.

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I think it is implied in the stated use, that a direct connection to reduce prisoner/witness tranfers to and from the courts is necessary. Therefore, any of thos areas, of which I still do not see, are applicable...?

I was talking about a future (maybe never) complete reconstruction of the courthouse facility. Currently, things are divided between the courthouse proper, administration building annex, and eventually the across-the-street annex. IF the powers that be deem it necessary, there's plenty of land downtown on which a new facility could be built. I may never live to see that, which is fine.

On a different (but related) note, there is also a lot of land directly to the east of the plot where the newest annex is planned to be built. Currently there are a couple old (historic?) buildings on it and nothing else. I have no idea if the county even owns it, but it's mostly a large, empty lot.

Oh, and no offense taken at all. ;-)

Privately owned...

College Station City Council approves of this spending and wants to say "thanks for taking the heat of us for a bit."

The attached parking garage is bigger than the annex. A sign of our time.

FYI 55M for a new building for staff and judges while prospective jurors will still sit on hard benches in the hall.

doubledog said:

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The attached parking garage is bigger than the annex. A sign of our time.

FYI 55M for a new building for staff and judges while prospective jurors will still sit on hard benches in the hall.

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Given that the existing courthouse will be expanded to be close to Texas Avenue, I can't imagine that the existing building wouldn't receive upgrades.

This whole thread was built on the false pretense that the $55M was just for the skywalk.

How long until they build a skywalk to the existing parking garage and then from the garage to the admin building (Former Church) connecting them all together.

So if it's 55 million it's a building and skyway, how much is just the skyway? Source?

Badly needed! Looking forward to this!!!

True.

trouble said:

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doubledog said:

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The attached parking garage is bigger than the annex. A sign of our time.

FYI 55M for a new building for staff and judges while prospective jurors will still sit on hard benches in the hall.

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I'd rather the hard benches that can be cleaned after seeing some of my fellow prospective jurors last week.

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Good point. Did you notice the lawyer walk? Defense and prosecution (sometimes) walk through the prospective jury pool. I always glare at them when they pass, I seldom get called up.

Not for my group but I recognized a few for other courtrooms

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Good point. Did you notice the lawyer walk? Defense and prosecution (sometimes) walk through the prospective jury pool. I always glare at them when they pass, I seldom get called up.

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Last time I was called for jury duty I wore my thin blue line shirt, but surprisingly I was still selected.

If it's going to be 55 million then they better connect that walking bridge to the parking garage as well!! What are they thinking? This should benefit everyone.

phillytex24 said:

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If it's going to be 55 million then they better connect that walking bridge to the parking garage as well!! What are they thinking? This should benefit everyone.

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There's literally going to be a new, dedicated parking garage as part of the project.