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Raleigh City Council Moves Toward New Civic Campus

…City Council members say they don’t want to renovate the City Hall, vacant police station and parking deck on the downtown block bounded by Morgan, McDowell, Hargett and Dawson streets. Instead, they want to demolish them and start over on the site.

“This whole block is an anti-civic block,” Councilman Russ Stephenson said. “This building is an anti-civic building.

Last year, the city hired Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which designed the new One World Trade Center buildings in New York City, as its primary consultant to create a master plan for a municipal campus. Council members on Tuesday offered tentative guidance on how to proceed with the project, which the city expects to complete in the next five to seven years.