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HALL OF JUSTICE
A plan to rehabilitate the long-vacant Hall of Justice building (Allied Architects Association, 1925) appears to be finally taking shape, with the County Board of Supervisors voting in November 2010 to rehabilitate the landmark.
The Beaux Arts building, at 211 West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles’ Civic Center, has been vacant since the 1994 Northridge earthquake. In recent years, non-structural hazardous materials and debris have been removed from the building and a seismic retrofit design has been completed. Once rehabilitated, the Hall of Justice building will reopen as the new sheriff’s headquarters, district attorney’s, and public defender’s offices. The Conservancy has participated in discussions with the County and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ensure important elements and features of the Hall of Justice building are retained as part of the rehabilitation. As proposed, the estimated $244 million project will result in the exterior rehabilitation and thorough cleaning of the 14-story building, as well as the restoration of the building’s grand lobby and loggia. The upper floors of the building will be significantly transformed to convert the building to office space, including the top five floors that formerly served as the county’s main jail facility. It played a significant role in the criminal justice history of Los Angeles, housing such notable arrestees as “Bugsy” Siegel, Robert Mitchum, Charles Manson, and Sirhan Sirhan. The County will relocate a representative corridor of jail cells to the building’s basement, where it will be periodically accessible to the public. As part of the rehabilitation, a new, multi-level, 1,000-space parking garage will also be included in the project. For More Information (PDF files)
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