Pinal County Building for the Future
REPUBLISHED FROM PINALCENTRAL.COM |January 3rd, 2026
FLORENCE — Site preparations are expected to begin, perhaps next week, for the new five-story Pinal County office building on Butte Avenue.
Construction will continue for two years on the 125,000-square-foot building that will house offices including those of the assessor, recorder and treasurer, human resources, budget and finance, and economic development.
Nearby, the county’s old Building D, mostly vacant since county attorney personnel vacated it a few years ago, could be demolished in mid-January, along with the former Victim Services building.
Pinal County personnel are working on interim parking for employees and the public, and access for the public, Pinal County Deputy Manager Himanshu Patel and Pinal Communications and Marketing Director James Daniels said.
“There will obviously be disruption for a while, but everyone will be doing their best to make sure service is uninterrupted,” Daniels said.
The new building will provide more spacious quarters for offices that now occupy the heavily remodeled Building E, which at one time was the third county courthouse.
“This is long overdue. The Assessor, Recorder and Treasurer have put up with a building 60 years old and 20 years out of date. In the past 5 years, rain has collapsed parts of the roof and the air conditioning and heating is horrible-part of the office will be 60 degrees and others 90 degrees. Not to mention the sewer problem” according to SaddleBrooke’s own Douglas Wolf, the County Assessor. In five years or so energy efficiency alone will payback cover the building cost. The county population has doubled in ten years and we are building the space we will need for more growth.” added Wolf.
Even before the massive new building breaks ground, county officials and staff are already looking ahead to phase two: The county’s old Building A at Butte Avenue and Pinal Street will be demolished for an extension of the newer building, “but that will be a number of years down the road,” Daniels said.
Meanwhile, the county is at work on other major construction. “These are pretty large projects that will keep our staff pretty busy,” Patel said.
Amid the flurry of everything new, the historic 1891 Second Pinal County Courthouse hasn’t been forgotten and will receive some upkeep in the new year. Work will include repainting, re-caulking, woodwork, brick repair and sealing on the building that houses the Board of Supervisors offices.
“So there will be contractors also working on this building, primarily on the exterior,” Patel said. The old courthouse will be open and available for the town’s 40th annual home tour on Feb.14.
