It's a building no one seems to want. The old Flagler County Courthouse has been empty for seven years.
Flagler County thought it had a deal with the city of Bunnell to take over the complex.
The city needed a city hall, and the county wanted to cut ties to the building which costs nearly $7,000 a month to maintain.
This past spring, the city of Bunnell walked away from the deal and the county was stuck, once again, with an empty 50,000-square-foot building.
So now Flagler County officials decided to do what any property owner looking to drum-up interest does: they held an open house.
County Commissioner Barbara Revels said they were looking "for any commercial realtors, business owners, companies that might think of expanding or relocating.”
If there is any encouraging news here, there are already serious inquiries about this property, even before the open house was held.
“We have a couple of those that I know of coming today," Revels said. "And others that have, I think we've even given one or two private tours and we'll continue to give private tours.”
Ky and Lisa Ekinci are taking a good, hard look at the property. They are part owners of a local business they are looking to expand.
Lisa Ekinci said they are intrigued about what this site could offer. “It's interesting to us. It's an interesting place for us to look at, it's something for us to consider our business, our network, to really ask ourselves tough questions of could this be an interesting place for us.”
The complex is actually two buildings: the nearly 90-year-old courthouse and an annex connected to the back. Whoever buys it will have to commit to a good deal of renovations.
But as stated a number of times through the open house tours, the county is willing to help out in any way to get this site off its hands.
An ad-hoc committee which Commissioner Revels also chairs was formed in June to determine the fate of the complex.
They have four months to make that decision.