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building on October 18, 1969. It was originally planned to have 20 floors and a cinema, but only 11 floors were built, with no cinema. The building served as Hayward's city hall from 1969 to 1998. Its top floor was the seat of municipal government and other floors were leased to businesses. It was
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Plans were announced in early 2008 for remodeling the tower, including seismic retrofitting and conversion to office space. There were also plans to build condominiums over the Centennial Hall parking garage, which has also been demolished. The building closed in 2009. In 2010, the city opened
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damaged the building's structural integrity and the city government moved out of the building. In 1998, after the completion of the new city hall, the building was closed to the public. The city sold the building for $ 1.5 million in 1998 to a developer who planned to convert it to
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is visible on the windows and top floors. In January 2008 a fence was erected around the building to deter vandalism. In March 2010 a fire broke out on the top floors of the tower. Homeless people have occupied the first floor, and taken out copper pipes to sell as scrap.
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The building remained vacant. The interior walls, pipes and heating system have been removed. There were numerous broken or boarded-up windows.
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campus. It was for many years an abandoned building, located between Foothill Boulevard and City Center Drive, in the City Center section of
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In the 1980s, the PlazaCenter complex of retail and commercial businesses was built next to it, on the former grounds of
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nicknamed the building "the toaster" in the 1970s, strongly influencing public opinion against it. The
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bidding for its demolition. Instead of demolition, the site only had hazardous materials removed.
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Demolition of the building began in January 2020 and was completed by September 2020.
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opened in January 1998. It is located at B Street and Watkins Street, next to the
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designed to replace the old Hayward city hall, now located at
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City Center Building, showing window damage and graffiti
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37°40′46″N 122°04′56″W / 37.679405°N 122.082353°W / 37.679405; -122.082353
Hayward
California
Warren Hall
Cal State East Bay
Downtown Hayward
steel reinforced concrete
Alex Giulini Plaza
Allan Temko
Centennial Hall Convention Center
Hayward High School
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
condominiums
City Hall
Hayward BART station

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