Two years after crews broke ground on the new Salt Lake County district attorney’s office building, employees started moving their things inside Friday.
Although construction took only two years, District Attorney Sim Gill said the building — located on 500 South about 100 yards from the Matheson Courthouse — has been about 30 years in the making.
The project was first conceived under former District Attorney Dave Yocom, who envisioned one building that was owned by the county and could hold the entire county attorney’s office.
Yocom hatched the idea in 1986, as he and attorneys worked out of a “rat-infested” and “insect-infested” building across the street from the old courthouse on 400 South.