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A construction team led by Gilbane Building Co, based in Providence, Rhode Island. exceeded a 250,000 square foot facility in Lake County, Ohio, which will serve as a sheriff’s office and correctional facility, according to a news release from the contractor. The cost of project is 205 million dollarsaccording to Project Management Consultants, the owner’s representative on the site.
The Lake County Public Safety Center, located in Painesville, Ohio, will sit across the street from the city’s existing jail on East Erie Street, on Gilbane. It will have inmate supervision, treatment programs and medical care capabilities.
Joining Gilbane on the design and construction team are Cleveland-based K2M Design and Painesville Lakeland contractor The Construction Group. the project started in November 2024according to a Lakeland announcement.
The new equipment will finish replace prisonaccording to a September 2024 press release from the city. Gilbane confirmed to Construction Dive that the old jail will be demolished.
In recent years, contractors across the country have secured lucrative contracts to build prisons. Skanska, for example, was selected to $312 million in women’s prison in New Jersey in October, while Nabholz Construction and JE Dunn were chosen to build one proposed an $825 million, 3,000-bed prison in Arkansas.
And in February, Tutor Perini revealed that the Manhattan prison he was building, one of four to replace the infamous Riker’s Island, would be it cost $3.8 billion.
In the past five years, Gilbane’s team has completed $1.7 billion worth of work on 29 projects in what it calls justice and public safety projects, according to the company’s website. These buildings include courthouses, correctional facilities and crime labs, including the Franklin County Correctional Center in Ohio and the Village of Oswego Police Station in Oswego, Illinois.
