Alex Giuliani Plaza is a park surrounding a vacant building in

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Hayward, California Hayward is a city located in Alameda County, California, United States, in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 162,954 as of 2020, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area, and the third largest in ...

. The building was Hayward's first city hall. It is located on Mission Boulevard and D Street.

History

Hayward City Hall opened in 1930. A circle-in-square design element on the building's facade was used to create the current city logo. It served as Hayward City Hall between 1930 and 1969. When the

City Center Building The City Center Building, known locally as Centennial Hall, was the tallest building in Hayward, California, Hayward, California. It was previously the second tallest, until the 2013 razing of Warren Hall on the California State University, East ...

opened in October 1969 the city government moved there. The current Hayward City Hall is located at 777 B Street, three blocks away from Giuliani Plaza. A

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from the

Hayward Fault The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes. The fault was first named in the Lawson Report of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake in recognition of its involvement in the ...

runs directly under the old City Hall building. The building was abandoned due to structural damage caused by

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. The Hayward 9/11 Memorial, located adjacent to the city hall building, a small memorial featuring 5 black granite columns, was dedicated May 30, 2016, to the first responders who died, and to the city's own fallen first responders, and the city's fallen soldiers

Renaming

In 1999 the City of Hayward renamed the building and surrounding park Alex Giualini Plaza after the former mayor.

Gallery

File:HaywardCityHall 1 construction plaque.jpg, Stone showing construction date File:Hayward City Hall Motif.jpg, Motifs on the old City Hall building File:Hayward City Hall 1 commemorative plaque.jpg, Commemorative plaque outside City Hall building, showing location of the former Rancho San Lorenzo File:Hayward City Hall 1 interior stairway.jpg, Interior stairway (building closed to the public)

References

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