Construction Underway on New $206M Raleigh City Hall

Work is heating up at the site for the East Civic Tower, the new city hall complex at the corner of Hargett and McDowell streets across from Nash Square. The site is next to the city’s current municipal complex.

The Triad Business Journal reports the project, which broke ground last summer, has a $206 million budget and calls for a 17-story building that will house the City Council chambers as well as office space and conference rooms for city departments.

The tower will allow the city to consolidate most of its operations and staff into a single building. The design of the building is led by Ratio. The contractors are Brasfield & Gorrie and Holt Brothers Construction.

The building will be 370,000 square feet and is expected to be complete in 2026. Back in 2018, the City Council approved a master plan for a new civic campus that called for three buildings on the block — the others would replace the municipal building and the City Park garage.