How to Use civic center in a Sentence

civic center

noun
  • It was moved to Heritage Park on Sycamore Drive in 1992 to make way for a new civic center.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The city is prepared to open up shelters next week if needed at two vacant school buildings and a civic center.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2023
  • The cornerstone of the civic center, an imposing set of buildings laid out in the shape of a horseshoe, was a twenty-four-inch slab of gold-bearing reef.
    Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Meantime, a candlelight vigil for Noel will be held Monday evening outside the civic center in Everman.
    Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said that a hotel is planned for the footprint of the civic center, in addition to renovating the civic center itself.
    Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
  • Nearby, Market Square became the city's civic center, home to Houston's first city hall and numerous markets and other businesses.
    Brittanie Shey, Chron, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Though the Empire completely wrecked the planet with fusion bombs, R5 soon discovers that the air remains breathable and Mando and Grogu spelunk into the depths of its devastated civic center to locate the famous mines.
    Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Students with bullet wounds, grazes and other injuries were not given medical attention, but rather put onto buses that went to the civic center, which was set up as a reunification center.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But in addition to the operating partner, Stimpson also argued that the city should also try to secure sponsors to assist in the rebuild of the civic center, in exchange for naming rights or another benefit.
    Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That includes municipalities, coalitions, cohorts, collectives and maybe, also, public civic center boards with enormous amounts of cash reserves.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
  • The township is interested in creating a civic center or community center on the Trantina Farm property where seniors, nonprofit groups and youth organizations could meet, Balich said.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In an interview last week with Alabama Media Group reporters, Stimpson reiterated his pitch to work with an outside operating partner on the civic center, in an effort to defray the cost of revitalizing the nearly 60-year-old complex.
    Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 22 Mar. 2023

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