Mike Cruz, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/02/2010 04:56:47 PM PST

SAN BERNARDINO – Details have begun to emerge about the county’s new downtown state courthouse – an 11-story facility amassing 362,000 square feet.

The facility will have two main sections: a three-story section for clerk’s offices, jury assembly and courts support space and an 11-story, 200-foot tall tower for 35 courtrooms, two hearing rooms and judicial offices.

The courthouse will replace the county’s existing three-story historic courthouse, which was built in 1926, and the attached T-wing annex.

San Bernardino Economic Development Agency donated the land: a seven-acre site at the corner of West Third Street and North Arrowhead Avenue.

While construction is set to begin in early 2011, planning has been underway for years as city, county and state leaders worked together to create a facility that met the area’s growing needs.

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