Over the past few months, there has been a lot of votes, discussion and opinions about whether or not the Clarence Lightner Public Safety Center should be built on the North side of Nash Square in Downtown Raleigh. The discussion and opinions have mostly been focused on the future of the site but little has been discussed about the history of the site and whether or not we should actually keep the Raleigh Municipal Building that currently sits in the spot of the proposed building.  For over half a century, the Municipal Building at 110 S. McDowell Street, on the corner of McDowell and Hargett, has been the fulcrum of Raleigh, NC.

New Raleigh (05/19/10)

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