The Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center was built in 1988[1] at a cost of $72 million[2] to replace the original Gwinnett County Courthouse, which had been built in 1872 shortly after the American Civil War.[3]
In 2021 the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners approved a $34 million renovation to the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center and the nearby One Justice Square building.[1] The One Justice Square building is one block away from the GJAC and contains office spaces for the Gwinnett County Department of Planning and Development[4]
Facility
The facility, also known as the Gwinnett County Courthouse, is located at 75 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville.[5] The primary facility is 508,000 square feet (47,000 m2) and consists of four levels on 61 acres (25 ha; 0.095 sq mi) of land.[2] The facility consists of 27 courtrooms, offices for various departments of the Gwinnett County government, and a law library.[2]
In 2019[6] a 487,600 square feet (45,000 m2) parking deck was added which has 1,450 parking spaces.[7][8]
A $75 million expansion project in 2020 included the construction of a new five-story, 228,000 square feet (21,000 m2) courthouse building called the Charolotte J. Nash Court Building. The Nash building was designed by the architecture firms Pieper O'Brien Herr Architects and DLR Group.[9] The Nash building is connected to the original GJAC building via an enclosed pedestrian bridge.[10] The courthouse expansion was named after Charlotte J. Nash, a retired chairwoman for the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners.[11]
