Daily Archives: June 28, 2008

If you grow it, they will come 0

In the literal, if not geographical, center of the city, Beaux Arts facades and dour gray buildings suggest an odd vanity in the otherwise homely Civic Center Plaza. I walked through the plaza back in February and was struck by the lifelessness in the landscape. Pollarded trees, like tumorous scarecrows, stood guard over the dismal [...]