ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — An old insurance company building in Rock Island will soon be home to a federal courthouse within the span of the next couple years.
In a press release sent out on Thursday, July 29th, Rock Island Mayor Mike Thoms announced the $20 million construction project for the abandoned insurance building in the 300 block of 18th Street .
The structure will be torn down and rebuilt into a 3-story building that will be home to three government tenants, including the courthouse for the U.S. District Court for Illinois's Central District, which currently resides in Davenport, Iowa.
Thoms notes that this is the third time that the project was considered, and this time, it passed, and he says that it is one of the biggest developments that the city's been working towards, especially in the downtown area.
"We've been working very hard on this for several years of trying to increase the revenue in the city and the best way to do that is new buildings being developed," he added.
Construction is expected to begin in the early fall, and the tenants are expected to move in sometime between late 2022 and early 2023.