Davis County complex to make way for new building

FARMINGTON (Davis County Clipper) — The county complex is going to look a lot different, within the next few years.

The Memorial Courthouse facade and historic first third of the building will be retained. But the rest of it will be demolished and replaced with a 72,000 square foot administration building.

The Davis County Commission formalized that decision Tuesday, when it approved an amendment with Blaylock & Partners Architects for $24 million in projects.

The administration building is estimated to cost $9 million, and will be tied to the new Farmington/Headquarters Library.

At 16,000 square feet, and a $3.2 million projected cost, the library will replace a 45-year-old building that is seismically unsound and too small. Separate library funds will be used to finance that facility.

The Children’s Justice Center, housed in an old home on the south end of the campus across from to Farmington’s rising city hall, will also be razed, and a new, 7,000-square-foot building, nearly twice as large as the current space, will be built on the east side of the campus for $1 million, County Commission Chair Bret Millburn said.

It will mean a lot of “musical buildings,” with the administration building going to the south, far enough from the current Memorial Courthouse that disruption of regular business there should be minimal, he said.

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