In March 2017, the Los Angeles City Council approved a new Civic Center Master Plan (CCMP). Now, the city looks to bring pedestrian life into the area. The 1955, Parker Center, headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department until 2009, opened on the east side of Los Angeles Street, pushing the civic district's eastern boundary to Alameda Street, establishing the current Civic Center footprint such that now nearly the entire area between Hope and Los Angeles streets, US-101, and Second Street, consists of civic buildings - the single large exception being the city block called Times Mirror Square, former headquarters of the Los Angeles Times newspaper.Īs part of the Grand Avenue Project, Grand Park was created in 2012, encompassing the former Civic Center Mall and additional areas such that it now stretches from the Los Angeles Music Center complex to City Hall. A new Los Angeles County Hall of Records arose nearby in 1962. The plan also conceived two County buildings: Stanley Mosk Courthouse completed in 1958, the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration opening in 1960, designed by Stanton, Stockwell, Williams and Wilson in Late Moderne style, flanking either side of a new pedestrian mall, Civic Center Mall, now part of Grand Park. One of these plans which was not adopted in its entirety, the 1947 Civic Center Master Plan, nonetheless envisioned the demolition of the once-tony residential area Bunker Hill, which happened in the 1950s and allowed the Civic Center to expand westward across the northern section of that neighborhood (from Temple south to Second St.). Nonetheless construction of the various buildings proceeded one by one, starting with the City Hall and the Hall of Justice in the 1920s, and the California State Building (already demolished) in 1931. There was later a Civic Center Advisory Committee and then in 1945, a Los Angeles Civic Center Authority. The public voted overwhelmingly to confirm the location, but the city and county differed on which plan to adopt. There was a "Mulholland Committee" to adopt one, and the location was put to the public for a vote in the late 1920s. Lyman Farewell, Cook and Hall, the Allied Architects Association, the Regional Planning Commission, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Lee Woollett, Stanton & Stockwell, and landscape architect Ralph Cornell all contributed plans or partial plans, through the late 1950s.
Charles Mulford Robinson's 1909 plan focused on only a few major buildings between Main, Broadway, First and Temple. There were numerous grand plans for a coherent, modern civic center. As upscale businesses moved further south into the Historic Core around 1900-1910, the Victorian-era blocks became the "north end" of the business district and became increasingly neglected. Part of what is now the Civic Center occupies what was the central business district (CBD) of the 1880s and 1890s, which was first centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza and grew to the south and west along Main Street, Spring Street and Broadway, with Third & Broadway forming its southwestern anchor by the mid-1890s. The Regional Connector, currently under construction, will serve this area with two stations at Second/Flower and Second/Broadway station. OCTA, Foothill Transit, DASH shuttles, Commuter Express and other municipal bus lines also serve the area. The Civic Center is served by numerous Metro buses, most of which run to adjacent Union Station, the 101 and 110 freeways, and the Metro B Line and D Line's Civic Center/Grand Park Station are also in the vicinity. ( March 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. In addition to the main civic center downtown, there is the West Los Angeles Civic Center in the Westside (built between 19) and the Van Nuys Civic Center in the San Fernando Valley, as well as a neighborhood city hall in San Pedro. Los Angeles' 1949 master plan called for branch administrative centers throughout the rapidly expanding city. The reason for the high concentration is simple: Los Angeles is the most populous county in the United States and its second largest city, and houses several state and federal functions for the region. The Civic Center has the distinction of containing the largest concentration of government employees in the United States outside of Washington, D.C.
Depending on various district definitions, either the Civic Center or Bunker Hill also contains the Music Center and adjacent Walt Disney Concert Hall some maps, for example, place the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Civic Center but the Disney Concert Hall in Bunker Hill. The Civic Center is located in the northern part of Downtown Los Angeles, bordering Bunker Hill, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, and the Historic Core of the old Downtown.
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