A new site for a federal courthouse in Hartford emerged Tuesday outside of downtown that would be among the three under consideration to replace the 60-year-old Abraham A. Ribicoff Federal Building and Courthouse on Main Street. A state office building on 10 acres at 61 Woodland St. in the city’s Asylum Hill neighborhood is now among the sites being considered for the planned $335 million new federal courthouse. he site, at the corner of Woodland and Asylum streets, was included in an announcement Tuesday in advance of a public meeting on June 6 to present the three options and inform the public on how comments can be submitted to the federal government. In 2022, the GSA received authorization for $335 million to purchase a site, design and building a new, 281,000 square-foot federal courthouse. So far, $273.5 million has been appropriated by the U.S. Congress. A new federal courthouse in Hartford has been discussed for years, and in 2020, the courthouse was listed as the top one needing replacement across the country. A groundbreaking could still be several years away.
New Hartford site emerges as potential location for new, $335M federal courthouse