When the City of Long Beach faced significant challenges — a seismically unsafe City Hall, outdated civic facilities, and no public funding to replace them — Edgemoor proposed a creative solution.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.

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Since the new Civic Center opened in 2019, downtown Long Beach has experienced a wave of new housing, restaurants, and civic life that has reshaped the heart of the city. The project will deliver more than $1.3 billion in regional economic impact over its lifetime and create roughly 8,000 jobs across construction and operations. On the site of the former City Hall, a new 580-unit mixed-use development is now bringing residents back into downtown, with the Civic Center serving as the anchor for everything that has followed.