A-Building’s costs skyrocket

Lazaro Aleman, ECB Publishing, Inc. An architect's lengthy oral report to the Jefferson County Commission recently on the status of the historic A-Building's restoration costs made for some jaw-dropping numbers. Bill Douglas, with EMI Architects, told commissioners that $3,851,970 has been expended so far on the restoration effort in grants and local monies. And at that, he said, the restoration was only about halfway complete. What's more, he said, going forward it was going to be much more