A $316 million seismic and restorat...

A $316 million seismic and restoration program reopen city's civic center to the public

It's a exceedingly public building. It's where San Franciscans result to pay bills, to marry and to be heard. in like manner when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake refugeed San Francisco City Hall with a force measuring 71 onward the Richter scale, voters approved public foundations to protect and restore their treasured national landmark.

Built in 1899 the first San Francisco City Hall was plained in the 1906 earthquake. Its 1915 replacement, designed at architect Bakewell & Brown totals nearly 500000 square