RALEIGH -- In these troubled economic times, Wake County commissioners voted unanimously on Monday to move ahead with the Wake County Justice Center, an 11-story building slated to go up on land bordering Martin, McDowell and Salisbury streets.
The project, estimated at $210 million, was put on hold last fall.
But county officials said this week that with interest rates as low as they are, it is a good time to put the project back on track. The existing courthouse, which stands between Salisbury and Fayetteville streets in downtown Raleigh, has 22 courtrooms to handle more than 200,000 cases filed each year.
