I'll see if I can find the renderings.  This story is from the 6/16/05 Campbell County Recorder:

 

Photo by ColDayMan/UrbanOhio

 

Campbell County unveils courthouse plan

By Melissa Hayden Staff Reporter 

 

Area judges will seek funding during the January legislative session for an expansion of the historic Campbell County Courthouse in Newport.  A proposed Campbell County Justice Center could smooth the judicial process and make room for more inmates, said Chief Senior Status Judge and former Circuit Court Judge William Wehr.

 

An artist's rendition of the expansion, unveiled June 9 at an interim Judiciary Committee meeting, part of the Northern Kentucky United event, shows a three story addition to the Campbell County Courthouse on York Street. The addition would be built over about half of the current courthouse parking lot facing Fourth Street.

 

Read full article here:

http://www.communitypress.com/BellevueKY/News.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=14786&Section=Main%20News&OnlineSection=Main%20News&SectionPubDate=6/16/2005%202:47:26%20AM&RefDate=6/16/2005%202:47:26%20AM

what an awesome building

Yeah, that's stunning.  I think it's the off-center clock tower that does it for me - makes it look sprawling and huge, like there are lots of different sections, but meanwhile everything else is symmetrical, all balanced and cohesive.  Very very nice structure.  I really hope they don't fuck it all up...

Whatever they do, you won't be able to see it from the front.  But I agree with you--I hope it's not some mis-matched modernist monstrosity.

can't they do it the ohio way, by putting a courthouse annex across the street? they should, especially since nothing build these days looks anything like that

^ I think the idea is that by putting it all together as one unit, it makes it easier to secure the perimeter.

Judicial center would bring end to paper chase

BY CHRIS MAYHEW | COMMUNITY RECORDER STAFF WRITER

 

Files are transferred daily back and forth between Campbell County District Court, Circuit Court, and Family Court.  The legislature's approval this spring of more than $29 million for the construction of a new judicial center would put all the courts in the same place and end the paper shuffle.

 

"What it will do...is put everything under the same roof," said Circuit Court Clerk Tom Calme.  The Columbia Street building housing District Court, which is adjacent and connected to the Campbell County Detention Center, doesn't have enough room for everything needed, and there's not enough room for the Family Court in the old courthouse on York Street, Calme said.

 

Read full article here:

http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060504/NEWS01/605040453/1077/Local

Bonds requested for courthouse

By Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 23, 2009

 

Those in charge of building the new courthouse addition in Newport have asked the Newport City Commission to issue bonds to fund the $30 million construction.  The bonds wouldn't cost the city anything, said William Wehr, chairman of the Newport Courthouse Project Development Board, which is overseeing the construction.

 

The state's Administrative Office of the Courts will fund the project and be responsible for the bonds.  The addition will be built behind the York Street courthouse where the parking lot sits and will connect with the old building via a hallway.

 

From the Campbell County Judicial Center Project --

 

"A groundbreaking ceremony for the planned Campbell County Judicial Center was held on September 1, 2009, at the construction site in Newport.

 

The Kentucky General Assembly authorized building a new Campbell County Judicial Center in 2006 and approved its funding in 2008. The total project budget is $29.3 million. The building will be 103,700 square feet.

 

CMW Inc. architectural firm of Lexington is providing architectural services for the project. Codell Construction Co. of Winchester is the construction manager for the project and Ross, Sinclaire & Associates, which serves Kentucky and six other states, is the financial agent."

Thanks for the update Sherman.  This also seems relevant: http://www.soapboxmedia.com/devnews/1201courthousesquare.aspx.

^^That rendering looks much better than what I would have expected Newport to put in that spot.  I hope that the finished product meets or exceeds that.

The expansion kinda sucks as it looms over you when crossing the bridge into Newport.