sentences:  The split level of the Great Hall comes with a two-storey glass front viewing the reflecting pond and wedding chapel.Three architect firms were shortlisted to submitted designs in 1986 for the then Markham Municipal Centre, including Raymond Moriyama Erickson and Barton Myers Associates, but the final design was awarded to Erickson.Erickson's original design was slightly different, but the Town intervened to keep costs at budget ($14.4 million and $5.2 million for landscaping)
  
  When the building was about to begin construction, Erickson's Toronto office faced financial difficulties.