{"id":163980,"date":"2026-02-21T18:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:12:06","slug":"second-district-court-of-appeal-completes-59-million-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163980\/","title":{"rendered":"Second District Court of Appeal completes $59 million courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Florida Second District Court of Appeal has completed its $59 million, three-story building, a 51,708-square-foot facility at 525 Mirror Lake Drive in St. Petersburg, that will serve as the court\u2019s permanent home.<\/p>\n

And it was under budget.<\/p>\n

The Second District handles appeals from six counties \u2013 Pasco and Pinellas in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto in the Twelfth and Hillsborough in the Thirteenth.<\/p>\n

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McCabe<\/p>\n

The courthouse has been named in honor of the late Bernie McCabe, the longtime State Attorney for Pinellas and Pasco counties.<\/p>\n

For several years, the court operated out of temporary and leased space after vacating its former Lakeland courthouse due to structural and air-quality concerns. The new building brings those operations into a purpose-built space in St. Pete\u2019s downtown core.<\/p>\n

The project rises on the former site of the Sebring Building, a 1968 structure that was demolished in 2022 to clear the block.<\/p>\n

Designed by DLR Group as architect of record, with Wannemacher Jensen Architects as associate architect, and constructed by Skanska, the courthouse includes 15 judicial chambers across two levels, a ceremonial courtroom and lobby and three floors of office space for judges, staff and Clerk of Court services.<\/p>\n

A 7,800-square-foot central energy plant supports the building\u2019s systems, and secure parking sits at ground level.<\/p>\n

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Demolition of the state-owned Sebring building at 525 Mirror Lake Dr. N. in 2022. Photo by Bill DeYoung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Second District Court of Appeal has completed its $59 million, three-story building, a 51,708-square-foot facility at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-163980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}