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(112,252 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2018, 02:29 PM Jun 2018

Koger Center landlord files lawsuit over state's 'shade' deal, plan to vacate building

Tallahassee -- Nearly a half dozen state agencies and more than 2,000 employees are planning to vacate the Koger Center along Apalachee Parkway when leases expire next year.

Most of the workers will be reassigned to buildings under construction in an office park going up at Blair Stone Road near Capitol Circle SE.

Eight agencies’ leases expire in October 2019 and so far, only one, the Department of Juvenile Justice, has said it will stay at Koger. Two have yet to decide.

Two have located new offices in north Tallahassee and three intend to move to a complex being built near Southwood by developer Nathan Lee Head, barring a court challenge to his winning bids.

The Koger owner has filed suit in Leon County Circuit Court to reopen lease negotiations. Todd Hakimi said the Department of Management Services was wrong when it waived a requirement for the agencies to negotiate with its current landlord before seeking new space.

Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/05/28/thousands-state-workers-moving-south/644544002/

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Koger Center landlord files lawsuit over state's 'shade' deal, plan to vacate building (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2018 OP

Unless the Koger Center has done major renovations, those building are crap csziggy Jun 2018 #1

csziggy

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1. Unless the Koger Center has done major renovations, those building are crap

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Tue Jun 5, 2018, 12:52 AM

Jun 2018

I worked in one of them in the mid 1970s and it was run down then even though it was less than five years old. Even then the building was not large enough for the agency that was in it. They were cheaply built and inadequate for the needs then. Parking was limited, too.

The only reason the state ever rented in Koger Center was to move agencies out of the aging state owned buildings in downtown Tallahassee.

Southwood is probably another boondoggle - in a decade or two those buildings will also be inadequate and deteriorating. The Department of Revenue in Southwood was not big enough the day they moved into it.

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