RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A county official says the more than $2 million renovation of the Pennington County Courthouse’s south entrance will be finished two months behind schedule.
It will be finished Dec. 15 instead of Oct. 20. The public will be able to use the courthouse’s main doors again once the work is finished.
Mike Kuhl is construction project manager at the county’s Buildings and Grounds Department. He says project managers didn’t expect such a cold winter, which froze soil that had been dug up.
Extra time needed to lay a new foundation was a bigger reason for the delay. Kuhl says a specialty subcontractor had to come in from Denver for the work.
The courthouse was originally built in 1922.
