Denton County's plan to move its civil courts into a converted office building now has a construction price attached: up to $63,254,957.
Commissioners Court will consider that figure Tuesday, Nov. 17, as a guaranteed maximum price amendment to the county's construction manager-at-risk contract with Byrne Construction Services, according to the posted agenda. The building is the former Sally Beauty headquarters, a five-story, roughly 200,000-square-foot office building at Colorado Boulevard and Brinker Road that the county bought for the purpose.
What the money covers
Byrne's proposal, dated Nov. 4 and attached to the agenda, prices the job at 203,193 square feet, or about $311 per square foot. Direct construction work accounts for about $54.9 million.
The rest is layered on top: roughly $3.8 million in general conditions, a 3% contractor contingency of about $1.65 million, a 1% market volatility contingency of $548,386, insurance and bonding, and a 1.95% construction fee of about $1.2 million.
The proposal lists a building permit and an owner's contingency as excluded from the price.
A memo from Public Facilities Director Dale Nelson says the county's team, including owner's representative AG|CM and architect Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, is still finishing a comprehensive review of the proposal, checking the bid scope and the project schedule.
The money would come from a mix of permanent improvement bonds issued in 2010 and 2015 and tax notes from 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025, as recommended by the county's budget office.
The court hired Byrne for preconstruction services on the project in June 2025, the memo says.
