Traffic-stopping Justice Center proposed

City Council gave the green light to a proposal that would position the city’s new Justice Center in the middle of the road on Second Street.

“We wanted to look at a number of different configurations to figure what would be best in terms of giving the building that prominence that you would expect from an important public building in a downtown,” said Matthew Gschwind of Michael Watkins Architect, the city’s design consultant, in a video message to council at the March 28 meeting.

The designers used public buildings including the original Taylor City Hall, the Williamson County Courthouse in Georgetown, the Texas State Capitol and the University of Texas tower as guides for positioning.