COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) -- We now know where a new Muscogee County Jail would be built – but we still don’t know exactly how much it would cost.

The Columbus Council voted Tuesday night to locate a new jail on city-owned land off Cusseta Road.

The city has been talking about replacing the Muscogee County Jail for more than a decade. Tonight, the council took action that brings a new jail closer to reality.

Two weeks after consultants told the city council a new jail would cost $478 million dollars, councilors moved forward with a location.

A 25-acre city-owned site currently occupied by Public Works was selected on a 7-1 vote.

The lone dissenting vote was Councilor John Anker.

“I would really like to see us slow it down and take some developers in there and look," Anker said.

Anker was

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