civic center
noun
1
US
: a large public building for sports events, concerts, etc.
2
British
: a section of a city or town where the public buildings are
Examples of civic center in a Sentence
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The pending shift of most of the city’s Development Services Department workers to new environs not only serves as a reminder of the sorry shape of municipal facilities in the downtown civic center complex, but San Diego’s decades-long quest for a new City Hall.
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Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
Why does Wauwatosa want to remodel City Hall and the library and when was this decided?
City Council and city staff have long discussed the potential renovation Wauwatosa's city hall, civic center and public library, which are located together at 7725 W. North Ave.
—Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2024
The city is prepared to open up shelters next week if needed at two vacant school buildings and a civic center.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2023
Students with bullet wounds, grazes and other injuries were not given medical attention, but rather put onto buses that went to the civic center, which was set up as a reunification center.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
Dearborn civic center showing The city of Dearborn will host a screening of the game at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center theater on Jan. 8.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
It was moved to Heritage Park on Sycamore Drive in 1992 to make way for a new civic center.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
Yet the federal aid helped the city to construct sidewalks, replace computer software, upgrade the police radio system and make fire and safety improvements to a civic center, among other things, said Lakewood Chief Financial Officer Holly Bjorklund.
—David A. Lieb and Kavish Harjai, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said that a hotel is planned for the footprint of the civic center, in addition to renovating the civic center itself.
—Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
Why does Wauwatosa want to remodel City Hall and the library and when was this decided?
City Council and city staff have long discussed the potential renovation Wauwatosa's city hall, civic center and public library, which are located together at 7725 W. North Ave.
—Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2024
The city is prepared to open up shelters next week if needed at two vacant school buildings and a civic center.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2023
Students with bullet wounds, grazes and other injuries were not given medical attention, but rather put onto buses that went to the civic center, which was set up as a reunification center.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
Dearborn civic center showing The city of Dearborn will host a screening of the game at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center theater on Jan. 8.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
It was moved to Heritage Park on Sycamore Drive in 1992 to make way for a new civic center.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
Yet the federal aid helped the city to construct sidewalks, replace computer software, upgrade the police radio system and make fire and safety improvements to a civic center, among other things, said Lakewood Chief Financial Officer Holly Bjorklund.
—David A. Lieb and Kavish Harjai, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said that a hotel is planned for the footprint of the civic center, in addition to renovating the civic center itself.
—Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
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