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Sponsored by Clay County under the legislature's Juvenile Facilities Grant Program, this project serves seven
west-central Minnesota Counties with 24 secure detention beds and a 12 bed minimum security "Shelter Care" unit. The facility
involved adaptive reuse of an existing two-story medical clinic building, with a third floor addition, for a total area of 35,246
square feet. The remodeling/construction cost was $3.2 million including furniture, fixtures and equipment.
The first floor of the existing building provides administrative, intake, and staff facilities with expansion
office space for future County needs. A first floor addition provides a secure vehicle sallyport. The second floor remodeling
accommodates the "Shelter Care" program, with associated program, recreation, and support space. The third floor addition
provides twenty-four secure detention beds with three direct-supervision housing units, a central control center, and adjacent
visiting, education, and counseling facilities. The project was occupied in the fall of 1997.
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