A rendering of the completed federal courthouse (credit: U.S. General Services Administration)
After a years-long planning and construction project, the federal courthouse in Harrisburg appears to be nearing an opening.
Officials will cut the ribbon on the newly constructed courthouse on N. 6th Street this week, announced the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on Monday.
The building has been under construction since January 2019, as part of a $200.9 million project to relocate the Harrisburg courthouse and provide a larger, updated building. The existing Ronald Reagan Federal Building in downtown Harrisburg no longer had the space to meet federal requirements or the increasing caseload, according to the GSA’s website. The N. 6th Street location was chosen in 2010.
The new 243,000 square-foot Sylvia H. Rambo United States Courthouse is located at N. 6th and Reily streets. It contains eight courtrooms and eleven chambers and will house the Pennsylvania 3rd Circuit U.S. Courts, U.S. Courts, U.S. Marshal Service, U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Trustees, Homeland Security and Federal Public Defender.
The ribbon cutting will take place on Friday at 10 a.m. and attendance is by invitation only.
According to Harrisburg Communications Director Matt Maisel, Mayor Wanda Williams will be in attendance.
GSA did not specify exactly when courthouse personnel will begin to work from the new building.
For more information, visit the U.S. General Services Administration’s website.
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