Government Plaza To Get Facelift

Posted on: Jul 22nd, 2015 | News and Announcements

After 20 years of use, Mobile Government Plaza is getting a facelift. ?We want to make sure that we are good stewards of our assets,? said Mobile County Commissioner Connie Hudson. ?Maintenance and upkeep of our prime asset is overdue and necessary.? The Mobile County Commission this month assigned a local architectural firm - Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood Inc. - to come up with a Master Plan for cleaning and upgrading areas that have deteriorated during the last two decades. First on the agenda, will be cleaning the floors and windows of the facility that houses county and city government as well as the judicial courts and its related functions. A wall of windows 10 stories high, on the east and west sides of Government Plaza?s atrium, will get a thorough cleaning under the proposed project scope. After last year?s fire at Government Plaza, the inside of the windows were cleaned as part of the larger clean-up. But the current project proposal will attend to the cleaning of the exterior. North and South tower windows also will be cleaned. The granite floors of the atrium also get a scrubbing as well as a0 polishing as part of the initial upgrades for the two-decade old government building. Improvements in the Auditorium meeting room in the Atrium, home of official meetings of the city and county, is already underway, with replacement of broken and worn seating. Carpeting, painting and installation of new hand rails will follow. Upgrades are anticipated on the courtside of the Plaza, where commissioners anticipate relocating security screening and repainting walls, doors and metal railings. Work on the 10th floor south tower reception area and county offices will include carpet and furniture replacement and painting. ?It?s time that we focus on the maintenance of our assets, especially when it applies to the seat of local government,? said Mobile County Commission President Jerry Carl. ?We want to put our best face forward.? Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood noted that the roof of Government Plaza had been rebuilt in the last year. ?We are undertaking important and long-needed upgrades to Government Plaza,? she said.