Blog: Safety Complex Updates

Week 109: Check Out the Progress with City Court Construction

In late January, the new City Court building went vertical - steel columns in place, no longer just an empty plot of ground and a drawing board plan.

Check out the progress with the City Court construction this month at the City's Public Safety Complex in North Knoxville, next to Fulton High School:

March 2022: New City Court Building at City's new Public Safety Complex

March 2022: New City Court Building at City's new Public Safety Complex

March 2022: Crews begin framing the interior of the new City Court.

The transformation of the vacated St. Mary's Hospital into a new Public Safety Complex - now in its 109th week - is scheduled to be finished by the end of this year.

The site will be a mix of government offices, college classrooms, private redevelopment and public green space in what had been, two years ago, a cramped cluster of vacant, obsolete buildings.

The City razed the old buildings that could not be repurposed and is reconstructing three empty buildings - the former Professional Office Building, Central Wing Annex and Women's Pavilion - to serve as a combined complex for the Police and Fire Departments, Pension System, and City Court and E-911 backup operations. It's a $55.8 million public investment.

Next door, Lincoln Memorial University is building out the former Magdalen Clarke Tower, a $40 million private investment that will create educational opportunities for hundreds of nursing and dental students each year.

New housing is envisioned on the north end of the former hospital campus, which the City cleared to accommodate future private redevelopment. The historic 1929 Building was carefully preserved and protected.

In the near future, the City and County also will be jointly converting the 25,000-square-foot former St. Mary's Ambulatory Surgery Center on the south end of the site into an urgent care and behavioral health facility.

Posted by evreeland On 29 March, 2022 at 1:45 PM