Brazoria County Courthouse expansion - Admin Building Ribbon-cutting ceremony

Brazoria County Courthouse Administration Building Ribbon-cutting Ceremony

Brazoria County Courthouse expansion - Admin Building Ribbon-cutting ceremony
October 13, 2023
AG|CM is providing project management on behalf of Brazoria County for the county's Courthouse Campus expansion encompassing the 9-block area surrounding the courthouse, addressing immediate space challenges and setting the stage for future surrounding population growth. The new campus includes renovations to the historic courthouse and the West Annex building, a new 6-floor, 152,000 SF administration building, a 154,845 SF expansion to the justice center, and a new 15,500 SF emergency operations center. AG|CM is working alongside SpawGlass, Hill International, Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, and Burditt Land Place on the campus expansion. 
AG|CM is working with Brazoria County on the Brazoria County Courthouse Campus Expansion program, including a new 5-story Administration Building that was unveiled in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 12, 2023.

Article: Building for growth: Brazoria County Courthouse Administration Building opens to public; full project is half-way done

Brazoria County Courthouse Administration Building opens to public

Angleton, Texas – Expanding the Brazoria County Courthouse was not on a “want” list. 

It was a necessity.

Construction on the new 150,000-square-foot administration building began in November 2021 as part of a larger project to expand the courthouse complex in order to accommodate Brazoria County’s bursting population.

“We had to do this project,” County Judge Matt Sebesta said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for the administration building at 227 E. Locust St. “We are a fast-growing county.”

He said the county is expected to have more than 700,000 residents in the next 22 years.

The existing courthouse, according to a study the county had done, could not accommodate the needs of the residents nor the additional staff the departments will require to serve them.

“Six and a half years ago, there was no room for additional rooms or people,” Sebesta told a crowd in the new Commissioners Courtroom. “You gotta have a place to put them.”

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