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Civic Center, Los Angeles, California




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.


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.


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 .


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 .


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