The coming few months could make for some significant milestones in a number of big-ticket capital projects that are currently on the to-do list of Alamance County’s government.
Early next month, the county’s administrators expect to present the board of commissioners with a contract for a much-discussed ambulance base that will ultimately serve the county’s easternmost reaches. Then, at some point by the end of the calendar year, the board’s current members will have a chance to revisit a $37 million courthouse expansion that received the all clear from a different lineup of commissioners in the summer of 2024.
In the midst of these high-level decisions, workers are putting the finishing touches on an eight-figure overhaul of a former industrial building that will eventually house the county’s 9-1-1 center and other emergency services. Meanwhile, the local tourism development authority is preparing to embark on a dramatic makeover of its own as it seeks to transform a historic home that was recently home to a bank into a fetching new visitors’ center for Alamance County…