Civic Center
The Civic Center district includes most of Cleveland's public buildings. City Hall is here, as is the Justice Center Complex, home of the City Police Headquarters, Cuyahoga County and Cleveland Municipal Courts Tower, and the Correction Center. The Cuyahoga County Court House is here, as is the Cleveland Convention Center with its underground exhibit facility. Other buildings in the district include the Cleveland Public Library main building, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse, and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District administration building. The Public Malls, Malls A, B, and C, also known as the Burnham Malls, hold public green space and gardens fronting the lake. As of 2005, one of the two plans for a new Cleveland convention center includes adding an additional mall that extends north towards the lake, the other being a new center built at Tower City.
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“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)