GSA Frank E Moss US Courthouse

Salt Lake City, Utah

SIZE

250,000 sq. ft. / 23, 226 sq. m.

COST

$58 Million

COMPLETION DATE

Est. 2024

SERVICES

Architecture, Interiors, Lighting Design, Sustainable Design, Engineering

This renovation project will seismically retrofit the historic building and back-fill vacant space with 12+ federal agencies including US Bankruptcy Courts, DCAA, ITA, NPS, DOI Office of Solictor, USCIS, US Trustees, Wage & Hour, USMS, USDA Film Archive, and GSA PBS Field Office.

The Frank E. Moss US Courthouse is the oldest structure in the historic Exchange Place District of downtown Salt Lake City, originally constructed in 1905 as a Federal Courthouse and US Post Office. Significantly expanded in 1912 and 1932, and followed by dozens of smaller remodeling projects since that evolved the building’s use and periodically upgraded its upgrades, its evolution from a large post office with (3) courtrooms and federal offices in 1932 had by 2014 shoehorned (17) courtrooms and courts support areas into space not designed for courts –a condition which compromised both the courts spaces as well as the original historic fabric of the building.

In 2014 US District Court functions moved to an adjacent new building, and Moss’ 250,000 sf currently sits 70% vacant, housing only the US Bankruptcy Court. Due to seismic activity in the Salt Lake area and the building’s unreinforced masonry construction, Moss is currently the most “at-risk” building in the GSA portfolio. The objectives for this project are to:

• Seismically upgrade the building to meet the Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard.

• Back-fill vacant space with 12+ federal agencies - most of which are currently located in private market leases - that will improve this under performing asset and save taxpayers $6M annually through lease cost avoidance.

• Modernize major building systems which have reached the end of their useful life.