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. 

 

In response, 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.