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HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The merchantability of the Kings County Courthouse, which galore see a historical landmark, has been approved for $1 during a metropolis assembly gathering past week.
The question was approved during the Hanford City Council Meeting connected Nov. 5, to let the metropolis manager to execute indispensable documents for the merchantability of the County of Kings Courthouse to Esteem Land Company LLC (DBA Barrelhouse Brewing).
The historical monument was sold for $1. It was built successful 1869, according to officials. It had an enlargement successful 1914, and astir of it has been vacant due to the fact that of accessibility and attraction issues.
Officials astatine the assembly gathering said the crushed for selling the courthouse was due to the fact that of the improvements that request to beryllium made to the building, which would outgo astir $10 million. They adhd the metropolis has looked astatine respective options, but yet decided to merchantability the courthouse to Esteem Land Company LLC erstwhile they expressed involvement successful acquiring it.
Kevin Nickell and Jason Carvalho with Esteem Land Company LLC accidental this is not the archetypal clip they person done a task of this kind. They adhd they privation to physique an operational, cleanable and harmless gathering that volition pull tiny businesses to Downtown Hanford.
They besides inquire for the community's enactment successful this project.
"This is an tremendous hazard for america to take. Yes, it's a dollar. I heard immoderate arguments connected that. But we are going to person to enactment truthful overmuch wealth into it, it's insane," said Nickell. "We request the assemblage enactment down us, 100%. They request to person religion successful america besides arsenic we person religion successful them."
According to officials, the sanction of the courthouse volition not beryllium changed, and officials accidental the archetypal benignant of archetypal improvements, including cleanup and attraction efforts, volition beryllium performed successful aboriginal 2025 and large improvements volition beryllium completed done 2025 and 2026.
The erstwhile courthouse is located astatine 113 Court Street successful Hanford.
