While the New Duval County Courthouse is being built, it is hard to imagine its size. Constructed on three large city blocks and far away from larger buildings, one can only guess that it is big but not THAT big of a building. Guess again! Years ago when the Barnett Tower Building was built, it was touted as the tallest building in Florida. Sadly, Barnett Bank is gone but Bank of America now owns its building.
The Bank of America building is an amazing 600,000 square feet of office space or 300 (2000 sq. ft.) houses. The purpose of the New Duval County Courthouse was to consolidate all the different leased court commercial property into one city-owned location. In order to meet its goal, the building had to be enormous. To make the task of design just that more interesting, the building had to have growth potential (room for more people and courtrooms) to last another 50 years past its completion date in 2012.
Now for the number. The New Duval County Courthouse completed size is going to be 800,000 square feet. This could hold 400 (2000 sq. ft.) houses and makes it larger, though it is only 7 stories tall, than the Bank of America building.
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