An end is in sight for the more-than-two-decades-long quest for a new Nashville federal courthouse.
The fiscal year 2016 Omnibus Appropriations bill Congress unveiled late Tuesday includes the full $181.5 million for design and construction of the building planned along Church Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. It would replace judiciary operations at the aging Estes Kefauver Federal Building at 801 Broadway.
Both houses of Congress are expected to pass the omnibus spending bill later this week.
“This is a rare move because it funds the courthouse all at once instead of creating uncertainty and waste by spreading the project out over several years,” said Republican Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, a member of the Senate appropriations committee who played a key role in (continue reading at Tennessean)