Monroe County Courthouse Expansion and Renovation

The Monroe County Commissioners together with the Judiciary are proceeding with plans to renovate, modernize and build an addition to the County Courthouse. These improvements are a priority for the County and the Court and are the result of over a decade of careful study that consistently demonstrated a need for both expansion and modernization.…

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Bergen County Justice Center

The Bergen County Justice Center has evolved over the last 100 years as a group of four interconnecting buildings housing 39 courtrooms and approximately 240,000 square feet of courts and justice-related agency spaces. Tenancy includes criminal, civil and family courts, as well as the Clerks offices, Prosecutor, Sheriff, and Municipal court. At the center of…

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Wake County Justice Center

CGL began assisting Wake County in 1999 to look at the 30-year needs of their criminal justice facilities. Over a 10-year period, CGL did numerous needs assessments and updates for the new courthouse and detention center expansions. Additional projects included planning for traffic courts, public safety center, health and human services department, and developing a…

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Hudson County Courthouse

Hudson County currently houses court functions and several county administrative departments in inadequate facilities, located centrally in Jersey City. CGL was tasked with creating a programmatic master plan including space needs for the courts and county agencies; developing options that accommodate those needs; and providing conceptual budget estimates for several options. CGL, working with the…

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Women’s Community Correctional Center

CGL was selected to work with the State of Hawaii Department of Public Safety to design a new facility intended to expand housing and replace the aging administration building and develop a new intake, transfer and release center at the existing Women’s Community Corrections Center. CGL has developed the space program, final design and construction…

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Philadelphia Inmate Space and Planning Study

In 2016, the City of Philadelphia was the recipient of a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation under the Safety and Justice Challenge. The purpose of this grant was to implement innovative strategies and evidence-based programs aimed at reducing the jail population. Ultimately, these strategies led to a significant population decrease.…

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Nevada Department of Corrections Master Plan

The State of Nevada retained CGL to develop a facility master plan for all Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities across the state, which includes institutions, camps, and work conservation camps. The project was developed utilizing DOC and Public Works Board (PWB) facility studies, DOC operational and program data, site and engineering data by PWB, and…

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Travis County Civil & Family Courthouse

CGL, as part of the Travis County Courthouse Development Partners (TCCDP), acted as the lead designer for the new Civil and Family courts facility. Having outgrown its previous space, Travis County formed a public/private partnership to construct a new 448,000 sf Civil and Family Court Facility including 25 courtrooms. The courthouse design is aimed at…

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Pinellas County Jail Upgrade

The new infrastructure building on the Pinellas County Jail campus provides for a new central plant and master control, laundry and food services for the entire jail operations. The infrastructure building has several resiliency features intended to maintain critical operations during the most severe weather events and natural disasters. As the nerve center of the…

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Multnomah County Central Courthouse

At 17 stories and 464,700 SF, the new LEED Gold-certified Multnomah County Central Courthouse is not only larger than its eight-story, 295,400-square-foot predecessor, but also far better equipped to endure the strength of earthquakes expected in the area over the next 50 years. In fact, creating a seismically safer courthouse was one of the main…

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