LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
Long Beach Civic Center
Reimagining Downtown Long Beach
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A public-private partnership transforms seismically unsafe facilities into a resilient, mixed-use civic campus — delivered within the City’s existing budget and designed to serve as a lasting anchor for community life.
HIGHLIGHTS
$513M
MIXED-USE
DEVELOPMENT
22 ACRES
SIX-BLOCK CIVIC CAMPUS
LEED GOLD
PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATION
PROJECT OVERVIEW
​​A New Chapter for Downtown Long Beach.
When the City of Long Beach faced significant challenges — a seismically unsafe City Hall, outdated civic facilities, and no public funding to replace them — Edgemoor proposed a creative solution.
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While completing the nearby Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse, we helped the city reimagine a new civic heart: a city hall, library, and park, financed within its existing annual budget. By monetizing land and aligning the Port’s headquarters move downtown, the project became self-sustaining, delivering a resilient civic campus that revitalized downtown and transformed a fiscal challenge into lasting community pride
The P3 method was selected because it enabled the City to procure a new Civic Center without any bond issues, tax measures or voter approvals, and included over 100 outreach sessions. This method also facilitated design and operational innovation from the P3 developers; provided a high level of 40-year life cycle maintenance for the new Civic Center; and integrated significantly increased private real estate development of the downtown area through the City’s contribution of land.”
- Michael Conway, Director of Economic and Public Development, City of Long Beach
RECOGNITION
Awards & Distinctions
