The former Delaware County Justice Center undergoing change to luxury condominiums. DAVID PENTICUFF/STAR PRESS
MUNCIE − Taking Delaware County’s old jail and court complex and turning it into luxury condominiums − with additional parking for City Hall employees − has been labor intensive and time consuming.
Ten million pounds of debris − 5,000 tons − were hauled away from the brutish red brick building in the past year as part of its transfiguration from a secure lockup into contemporary and comfortable high-end dwellings, said Michael Jennings, a developer, workman, brother and son in the family steering the downtown project.
Even the non load-bearing walls inside the old Justice Center were filled with concrete and rebar, he said.
Last week Michael Jennings and his partner/brother Matthew Jennings provided a tour of the structure moving out of demolition stage and deeper into its creation phase.
Justice Parking and Condominiums, LLC, is the company they formed with their father, David, to take on this project in October 2021. They were also the people who took the aging former First Christian Church on East North Street and turned it into what has consistently been praised as a beautiful structure now functioning as the North Church Venue. That building was purchased in 2018 and was finished before the end of 2020.
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