New Fredericton courthouse will cost $60M, Burton courthouse to be closed by 2025
CBC
Plans for the new Fredericton courthouse have been unveiled, again.
On Tuesday, the province revealed the new plans for a $60-million courthouse on King Street between Regent and Carleton streets.
The courthouse project has been in limbo since the former Liberal government announced a new building in the summer of 2018, with a projected cost of $76 million.
The plan was to refurbish the Centennial Building in downtown Fredericton and include a courthouse.
Construction got underway but was halted not long after, when Blaine Higgs became premier and axed it in late 2018.
The cancellation cost taxpayers $13 million for work that had already been done, but Bill Oliver, who was transportation minister at the time, said the province was saving approximately $60 million in construction costs.
On Tuesday, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Jill Green echoed that sentiment, saying it was the right decision to cancel the former project and replace it with this one.
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