A potential property purchase near the Judge J.B. Allen, Jr. Court House in Graham is among the items that will come before Alamance County’s board of commissioners at its final gathering of 2025.
The agenda for this meeting on Monday, December 15 includes the proposed acquisition of a home at 301 West Pine Street, which bumps up against a county-owned complex of buildings that’s dominated by the Allen Court House, Alamance County’s jail, and the parking lots that serve these facilities.
The county’s leaders have previously discussed this dwelling’s acquisition in order to restore some of the parking that will disappear in the forthcoming expansion of the Allen Court House.
This loss of parking was one of several factors that the commissioners weighed before they signed off on this $37 million project in the summer of 2024. Although the exact footprint of this three-story addition has yet to be determined, its four proposed courtrooms and 9,000 square feet of office space are expected to take out a sizeable chunk of the parking area that lies to the west of the court building.
Kelly Allen, the chairman of the Alamance County’s commissioners, informed The Alamance News that the plan before the commissioners would offset some of the lost parking by acquiring the .36-acre parcel at 301 West Pine Street from the family of Nancy M. Allen. She added that the proposal on Monday’s agenda would have the county purchase this lot at its current tax value of $183,785.
In addition to this real estate purchase, Allen said that she and her colleagues will discuss the proposed renovation of the county’s EMS base, which was completed in 2008 along East Crescent Square Drive – not far from the interstate interchange for South Main Street in Graham.
The corresponding item on the board’s meeting agenda would give the county manager permission to negotiate a contract with C.T. Wilson construction to revamp this building.
Aside from these two facilities-related items, Allen insisted that there’s not a whole lot of heavy decision-making in store for the commissioners at their final meeting of 2025.
“It’s appointing people to boards and stuff like that,” she said in an interview Wednesday. “There’s nothing earth shattering.”
