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County honored for building projects
Board chair accepts award from LADCO
The first solution is not always the best.
La Crosse County Board chair Tara Johnson made that observation this week, while accepting an award from La Crosse Area Development Corp. (LADCO) for the so-called ‘trifecta’ of downtown building projects that will lead to county offices moving into the Associated Bank on State Street.
Johnson says the original objective, to get asbestos out of the county’s current administrative center, would have forced some departments out of the building anyway.
The county has been criticized for planning to abandon a 50-year-old building, the former courthouse, in order to move to an even older bank at a cost of several million dollars.
And, in beginning that move into the bank, the planning committee for the new administrative center was told back in October by architect Val Schute that some asbestos exists in basement floor tiles in the old bank, as well.