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Clackamas County has selected Fengate PCL Progress Partners to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a new courthouse through a public-private partnership. FP3 was selected through a competitive procurement process.

The FP3 consortium comprises Fengate Asset Management and PCL Investments Inc. as developer, PCL Construction Services Inc. as design-build contractor, Honeywell as services provider and DLR Group as design services provider.

Fengate is managing the investment as part of its infrastructure strategy on behalf of its investors, including an investment fund owned by the LiUNA Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada.

Built in 1936 to serve 50,000 residents, the existing facility can no longer handle the demands of a population of 420,000 that continues to grow, according to a news release from Fengate Asset Management. The gap between space availability and judicial needs of the growing population in the county has led to delays in trials and incarceration and affected child support hearings and civil litigation trials. The facility has been determined functionally obsolete and seismically unsound.

The new 241,073-square-foot courthouse will be built on the county’s Red Soils Campus in Oregon City. The site will allow courthouse users to quickly access county departments, including Social Services, Behavioral Health, Public Health, Juvenile, Veterans Services and the Family Justice Center.

The county owns the land and utility infrastructure already is installed as a part of the master plan for the campus. The new facility will feature 16 courtrooms, 17 judicial chambers, space for the District Attorney’s Office, secure loading and staging areas, enhanced prisoner transfer facilities, jury assembly and grand jury spaces, safe corridors for courthouse users, and secure holding cells for violent offenders.

In May 2021, Clackamas County Commissioners approved a plan to pursue a public-private partnership for the new courthouse, the first of its kind for Oregon. The county owns the courthouse and the state and the county will not make any payments until the building is completed and ready for occupancy. Upon completion, the state’s contribution will be applied as a lump sum payment toward the private financing with the remainder repaid by the county over the remaining 30-year term of the project agreement.

FP3’s goal is to meet or exceed subcontracting goals on the project utilizing local Disadvantaged Minority-Owned/Women-Owned/Emerging Small Businesses/Service-Disabled Veterans Business, Small Business Utilization goals and Construction Career Pathways Project initiatives. Upon completion, FP3 will operate and maintain the facility over a 30-year period.