Gilbane team tops out $205M Ohio jail

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A development group led by Windfall, Rhode Island-based Gilbane Constructing Co. topped out a 250,000 square foot facility in Lake County, Ohio, that may function a sheriff’s workplace and a correctional facility, in accordance with a information launch from the contractor. The price of the project is $205 million, in accordance with Challenge Administration Consultants, the proprietor’s consultant on the job.

The Lake County Public Security Heart, situated in Painesville, Ohio, will sit throughout the road from town’s present jail on East Erie Road, per Gilbane. It can have inmate supervision, therapy applications and medical care capabilities.

Alongside Gilbane on the design-build group is Cleveland-based K2M Design, and Painesville contractor Lakeland, The Development Group. The challenge broke ground in November 2024, in accordance with an announcement from Lakeland. 

The brand new facility will ultimately replace the jail, in accordance with a September 2024 information launch from town. Gilbane confirmed to Development Dive that the previous jail shall be demolished.

Over the previous few years, contractors throughout the nation have nabbed profitable contracts constructing jails. Skanska, for instance, was chosen for a $312 million women’s prison in New Jersey in October, whereas Nabholz Development and JE Dunn had been picked to construct a proposed $825 million, 3,000-bed prison in Arkansas.

And in February, Tutor Perini revealed the Manhattan jail it was setting up — one in all 4 that may substitute the notorious Riker’s Island — would cost $3.8 billion.

Up to now 5 years, Gilbane’s group has accomplished $1.7 billion-worth of labor throughout 29 tasks in what it calls justice and public security tasks, per the agency’s web site. These builds comprise courthouses, correctional services and crime labs, together with the Franklin County Corrections Heart in Ohio and the Village of Oswego police station in Oswego, Illinois.