Broward Chief Judge Peter Weinstein has a Yiddish word for the long-delayed new courthouse: Tsuris.
Tsuris means trouble. It is the perfect word for the problem-plagued roughly $200 million-plus project.
The latest: The unopened building does not have a large meeting room.
This news comes the same day the Sun-Sentinel had an astounding story that the new courthouse already had mold. Mold in the old courthouse is one of the reasons a new courthouse was built.
In addition to mold revealed by staff writer Brittany Wallman, the new building has no room large enough to hold the robing ceremonies for new judges early next year. Large enough to hold major trials with multiple criminal defendants.
Not one of the 75 new courtrooms or meeting rooms can accommodate even a moderate-sized group. Not one of the 714,000 square feet in the building.
“There is nothing big enough,” Weinstein said.
Weinstein already took steps to cut the crowd at the robings. Traditionally the new judges and their families, other judges and members of the legal community attend. Because there are about 15 judges to take the oath of office, the ceremonial robings are being spread out over days — Jan. 19, Jan. 27 and Feb. 10.
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