GSA to offer privatization of old court site, Reed says
Source: BY JOHN LUCIEW, The Patriot-News (PA), Thursday, August 23, 2007
Mayor Stephen R. Reed said Wednesday that the federal government is plotting a new twist in its efforts to build a U.S. courthouse in downtown Harrisburg.
Citing "federal officials in a position to know," Reed told a community group fighting the project that the U.S. General Services Administration has not relented in its desire to build a $100 million courthouse on one of two downtown sites.
Reed said the agency is preparing to sweeten the deal by offering to "privatize" the existing federal courthouse at Third and Walnut streets.
Reed said that building would be sold to a private owner, with the government leasing space for federal offices that would remain there. The move would return the building to the city tax rolls.