Civic Center, Los Angeles, California
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The Civic Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles and a complex of city, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses.
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[edit] Location
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. 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 has the distinction of containing the largest concentration of government employees in the United States outside of Washington, D. C. The reason is simple: Here are offices of the largest county in the country (Los Angeles) and the second largest city, along with several state and federal functions.
[edit] Transportation
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 Red Line's Civic Center Station.
[edit] Development
The Civic Center is part of the Grand Avenue Project, which aims to develop existing parking lots in the area for residential use as well as create a pedestrian park between the Music Center and City Hall.
[edit] Landmarks
- Los Angeles City Hall
- Olvera Street
- Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
- Walt Disney Concert Hall
- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Los Angeles Music Center
[edit] Government & Administrative Buildings
- Los Angeles City Hall
- Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
- Stanley Mosk L.A. Courthouse
- Hall of Records
- Law Library
- Courthouses: Federal, State, County
- LAPD Parker Center
- Caltrans District 7 Headquarters
- Alameda St. Detention Facility
