Nearly two years after agreeing to spend $4 million in federal stimulus dollars to renovate its aging Recorders Court, DeKalb County has signed off on the main contract for work.
The $1.8 million deal calls for Diversified Construction of Georgia to add two courtrooms, renovating two existing courtrooms and make several upgrades to the administrative and lobby areas at the facility on Camp Circle, just off Memorial Drive and I-285.
Chief Judge Nelly Withers and her staff spent off hours converting a former storage area into a fourth courtroom last summer, a temporary fix to ease a space crunch that has helped generate a backlog of at least 40,000 trials.
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