Yakima County courthouse to get finishing landscape touches

YAKIMA, Wash. Grass, maple trees and a water fountain will be installed at the west end of the Yakima County courthouse this summer the final touches on the structures recent exterior upgrade.

Those finishing upgrades will cost about $50,000, and a request for bids for the work was advertised Wednesday.

A roughly 3-foot concrete pool and waterfall will accompany the grass and maple trees that will replace the old planter box at the west end of the building along First Street. A small strip of sidewalk near the corner of First Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard also will be completed, said county Engineer Gary Ekstedt.

It will be kind of a little park, he said. There will be some grass and a couple of maple trees in there.

Work is expected to begin in June and take about a month.

So far, the county has spent roughly $4.3 million on upgrading the exterior of the courthouse, which included a new facade over the entire building improving weather resistance and newly paved sidewalks and parking lots, said Director of Public Services Vern Redifer.

Were styling and profiling, he said.

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