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Yakima County is one step closer to a vote on a new courthouse in downtown Yakima.
Yakima County commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved a $637,554 contract for design of a new courthouse project. The design contract, with Seattle firm DLR, will allow the commissioners to get a better idea of exactly what the project will entail and how much it will cost.
Recommended last year by a county facilities committee, the project includes building a new courthouse that would house all of the county's court functions. It would be built directly north of the downtown jail on the corner of North Front Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The current courthouse at 128 N. Second St., which also houses administrative functions such as driver's license renewal and development permitting, would be renovated and would house county offices.
In all, the project's estimated costs have been as high as $135 million. A yet to be determined portion of that would come from a bond issue that the commissioners plan to put before voters in 2010.
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