Middlesex County Administration Building

Completion: October 1999 Location: Central business district, Bayard and Kirkpatrick Streets Size: 115,000 sq. ft. Tenants: County of Middlesex

Developer: Devco and Keating Development Company

Architect: Rothe-Johnson-Fantacone

Investment: $50 million (includes Civic Square Public Safety Building)

Financing: Self-issuing Certificates of Participation underwritten by CoreStates

The Civic Square initiative represents New Jersey's first privately conceived, planned, developed, constructed, and maintained government complex. At the conception of the project, the city and county governments were faced with a critical need to renovate outdated and inefficient government buildings to accommodate current needs as well as future growth. Rather than assume costly and lengthy renovations through taxpayer-based financing, Devco proposed the development of a new government complex, created through an innovative public-private partnership, to deliver the buildings more timely and less expensively. This would prove to be not only the best economic alternative for the government entities and the taxpayers, but also the impetus for expansive revitalization efforts in the heart of the city.