In 2022, I wrote that cost overruns on Stockton’s new City Hall were “entering boondoggle territory.” Three years down the road, the potential waste of money has grown worse.
It’s not just the ever-increasing price tag — the renovation and relocation project has soared to closer to $100 million, if you factor in other costs like the parking lot — but the delays. Eight years on, the money-sucking towers at 501 and 509 West Weber are yet to be completed…