[KevinFromTexas]

The larger courthouse they're wanting to build across from Republic Square Park will be for civil trials. Mostly things like weddings-on-the-cheap and divorces and other civil disputes. The DA's office only handles criminal cases. So that's why they'll be separate. They eventually want to build a new criminal courthouse as well near the existing one and the jail. The old courthouse will likely become some other county office after it goes through a renovation/restoration project. One thing that is splitting the uses up, too, is that most of the land the county owns around there is within CVCs, so they can't go very tall on all of them. The block where this building is going for instance has three corridors running through it.