County courthouse to have new address?

The days of going to the 1976-built, 26-story Justice Center tower in Downtown
Cleveland to attend a hearing at Cleveland Municipal Court or the Cuyahoga
County Court of Common Pleas appear to be numbered. Also at the Justice Cen-
ter is the Cleveland Division of Police, seen at left, and the two jail blocks
behind it. Those three buildings may be demolished after the police and jails
leave. If the courthouse tower survives, it will like have a new purpose
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A Cuyahoga County committee has reportedly rejected all but one of the proposals that could have kept a Consolidated Courthouse at the current site of Downtown Cleveland’s existing Justice Center. NEOtrans has learned that, of the four surviving proposals, one involves a complicated, time-consuming double-move of courthouse functions from the current site and back again. If rejected, it would end a five-decade run of the Justice Center site as a law enforcement, adjudication and penal facility and set the stage for its redevelopment.

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