The renovation of the Waterbury State Office Complex is almost complete, and state employees are on track to move back at the end of 2015. The facility will house about 850 state employees, most of whom work for the Agency of Human Services, the largest agency of state government, and the Department of Public Safety.
The project has been in the works since Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011 damaged the complex. Heavy rainfall led to severe flooding and the evacuation of psychiatric patients at the Vermont State Hospital. About 1,500 state employees worked at the Waterbury complex at the time. The facility served as an insane asylum in the 1800s.
Now a modern granite building peeks out from behind 19th century brick Victorian buildings.
