Agriculture Department breaks ground on new $208 million Tallahassee lab, office complex
Local and state leaders broke ground Tuesday for a new $208 million Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) complex in Tallahassee, celebrating it as a revolutionary step forward for Florida farmers.
The five-story and 250,000-square-foot facilityGo to https://www.ajaxbuilding.com/projects/florida-department-of-agriculture-consumer-services-conner-complex/ – covering the equivalent of more than four football fields – will be built on the corner of Capital Circle and Conner Boulevard.
Grabbing shovels, Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson joined Florida Senate President Ben Albritton and state Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, for a ceremonial ground-breaking at the site, which hosts the current Conner Complex, home of the Florida Forest Service and the department’s Division of Food Safety, among others.
“We have spent a lot of time the last two years working on efficiencies and technology … when this opens in 2027, it’s really going to revolutionize the department and our interactions with the general public,” Simpson said.
The new complex will enable the department to relocate nearly 800 office workers scattered in two 75-year-old buildings with deteriorating heating and ventilation five miles away in downtown Tallahassee and office parks along Apalachee Parkway to one location.
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