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$137M Courthouse Completed

WILMINGTON, DE-The new $13-million New Castle County Courthouse opens its doors to the 700 workers it will house and hordes of daily visitors. With 572,000 sf of space for courtrooms and the like, the 14-story building is the state's most expensive non-transportation development ever.

By Barbra Murray | Updated on September 13, 2002

WILMINGTON, DE-County workers have settled in at the newly completed $137-million, 572,000-sf New Castle County Courthouse, and employees and officials alike are preparing for the building’s official opening ceremony on Oct. 11. Four years in the making, the new judicial facility is distinguished by not only its 264-ft height, but also its label as the largest and most expensive non-transportation development ever authorized by the state of Delaware.

Located at 500 King St., the new structure holds the county’s four trial courts: the Court of Chancery, Superior Court, Family Court, and Court of Common Pleas and Justice of the Peace Court. A massive and imposing edifice, it occupies a 5.5-acre plot and holds 44 courtrooms among its 14 floors, all designed by Wilmington’s Buck Simpers Architect and Associates Inc. and Orlando, FL’s HLM Design. Local companies EDiS and Jacobs Facilities oversaw the construction. The property also includes a detention area capable of accommodating 200 prisoners, a 150-seat cafeteria, a public reading room, and a law library.

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