Sen. Skoufis Secures $3 Million Grant for Courthouse Rehab in Middletown

Published on May 25, 2024

New York State Sen. James Skoufis recently secured a $3 million capital grant for a long-awaited courthouse renovation project in the City of Middletown. Once completed, the renovations will turn a long-vacated former federal courthouse on South Street into a centralized city court presided by two full-time judges. “The city over the past years has undergone a renaissance,” Mr. Skoufis said at a press conference in Middletown on May 23. “This is just the latest brick in the wall here in rebuilding the city of Middletown, where we don’t want empty buildings.” After the former federal courthouse closed in late 2014, Middletown soon purchased the property with a $2.7 million state grant secured by state Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, but subsequent funding challenges dragged out the effort to turn it into a city court....

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