Springfield Tower Square, LLC, owned by Vid Mitta and Dinesh Patel, proposes a new eight-story courthouse at 275 Chestnut Street, a cleared lot of about 2.3 acres at Chestnut and Liberty Streets, under a 40-year lease. KMW Architecture is the architect and Consigli the construction manager. The proposal says the partners own the site, though its attached purchase documents show the land transfer was conditional and still pending.

The site’s argument is room and access. It holds a courthouse and a parking garage on one parcel, beside an I-291 interchange, with two PVTA routes at the corner and Union Station about a seven-minute walk away. The schedule shows completion in 2029.

At the counter. Shared public counters are placed at the elevators and stairs, with office areas between the courtroom blocks. The size of the clerks’ offices and counters is redacted.

Moving through the building. Each courtroom floor holds four courtrooms in pairs, with shared office space assigned by department. Departments whose courtrooms fill two floors, such as District and Superior, put their clerks on one of those floors and probation on the other. Housing and Juvenile keep both on a single floor.

Parking. The proposal provides 70 spaces directly beneath the building, 32 secured and 38 reserved. A separate garage of roughly 650 to 700 spaces on the same site serves jurors and visitors.

Safety by design. Separate circulation paths serve the public, staff and detainees, and staff parking under the building means no street crossing to reach work.

Cost. The lease is triple net. With the proposer’s estimates for utilities, operating expenses, real estate taxes and a capital reserve, year-one cost is $46.7 million, rising 3 percent a year to $147.8 million in year 40, about $3.52 billion over the term.

In sum. 275 Chestnut puts staff parking under the courthouse and visitor parking beside it. In exchange, the site sits outside Court Square, and the triple-net lease grows 3 percent a year on every component.