When the State of California needed a new home for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, it faced challenges common across the public sector: limited budgets, aging facilities, and no reliable way to fund long-term maintenance, while the need for modernization continued to rise. 

 

As part of a development consortium, Edgemoor delivered the nation’s first availability-payment social infrastructure project, establishing a new model for how civic buildings can be financed, delivered, and managed in the U.S. Under this structure, the state makes fixed annual payments only once the courthouse is operational and meeting defined performance standards, ensuring cost certainty and accountability for decades. 

 

By uniting design, construction, financing, third-party leasing, and long-term operations under one coordinated approach, we ensured alignment from the start. The courthouse was ultimately delivered ahead of schedule, under budget, and achieved LEED Gold certification. 

 

The project marked a shift in how California could approach civic infrastructure, demonstrating that pairing public priorities with private-sector discipline can produce facilities that perform better and remain reliable long into the future.

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Today the Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse serves as a central hub for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County's South District, with 31 courtrooms supporting civil, criminal, family, and probate matters for residents across the Long Beach region. Beyond the legal work that happens inside it, the building has become a civic anchor for downtown Long Beach, and is backed by a 35-year operating and maintenance commitment that keeps it performing to the same standard decades after the doors first opened.