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Multnomah County has hired Portland-based firms SRG Partnership Inc. and Hoffman Construction Co. to design and build a new downtown courthouse.

The firms were selected based on qualifications that included experience building in downtown Portland and designing and constructing courthouses. SRG and Hoffman, which each have worked on numerous large public buildings in the Pacific Northwest, were among four groups of finalists vying for the estimated $250 million project.

SRG will partner with CGLRicciGreene, a New York-based architecture firm with expertise in courthouses and other justice facilities, on design of the new Multnomah County Courthouse. CGLRicciGreene has designed other county courthouses of similar size and complexity to Multnomah County’s proposed new courthouse.

Hoffman Construction will serve as the project’s construction manager-general contractor. The firm has extensive experience with the public contracting model and worked on more than 30 CM-GC projects.

SRG and Hoffman have collaborated on other public projects, including the Oregon Health & Science University West Campus in Beaverton; Ron Tonkin Field, home of the Hillsboro Hops  baseball team; and the Oregon State Hospital Replacement Project in Salem.

Multnomah County commissioners in April selected a vacant county-owned site near the west end of the Hawthorne Bridge for the new courthouse. Initial plans call for an L-shaped building with approximately 17 stories that would wrap around the nearby Veritable Quandary restaurant and the historic Jefferson Station building.

Design work is scheduled to begin this year with construction anticipated to start in 2017. The state- and county-funded project is scheduled to be complete by 2020.