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GlobeSt.com EXCLUSIVE: $62M Project's Future Cloudy

AUSTIN-Funding concerns could delay a 195,000-sf federal courthouse until the 2005 budget and completion to 2007. Even though money is a problem, the site selection will continue. The decision, though, is still weeks away.

By Beverly Ford | Updated on March 20, 2003

AUSTIN-The selection of a site for the new federal courthouse is still weeks away, but finding the funds to build the $62-million, 195,000-sf building may be even more worrisome than finding a location.

“We did get site and design money in the 2003 budget. What we don’t know is when we will get money for the construction contract,” Leonard Murphy, with the federal General Services Administration’s Fort Worth office, tells GlobeSt.com.

Murphy said federal cuts in appropriations for courthouses across the country left Austin without the $45 million to $50 million needed to fund construction of the project. That funding request will be resubmitted as part of the 2005 federal budget, he said. If funding is approved in 2005, the project could begin construction in April of that year as scheduled, with completion slated for October 2007.

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