After year of planning, renovations for Springfield’s dilapidated Armory slated for July start – NPR Illinois

The 85-year-old building, a behemoth structure that takes up an entire city block just north of the Capitol building on 2nd Street, has not served as anything but storage space since the last state agency to call it home moved out in 2008. When the three-year, $112 million renovation is complete, the Armory will return to only one of its original purposes: serving as office space when approximately 600 state employees transition to the building in 2025.

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