KALAMAZOO, MI — Kalamazoo County will spend at least $100 million on a project to build new administration building downtown, county leaders said.

The new, approximately 120,000-square-foot structure will be built across the street from the current admin building, along Kalamazoo Avenue, where a McDonald’s currently sits and on adjacent plots.

That’s double the size of the current administration building.

With an onsite parking garage housing around 440 spaces, the new development will take up the full city block, County Administrator/Controller Kevin A. Catlin said.

The county is planning to purchase a city-owned parking lot currently leased to Metro to complete the block, he told MLive in an interview this week.

The county will first build a parking structure and then move onto the

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