Watch now: Downtown Tucson buildings torn down in the 1960s
- By Johanna Eubank
Arizona Daily Star
Johanna Eubank
Online producer
- Updated
The Tucson City Council approved a massive downtown redevelopment project in 1965 that leveled businesses and neighborhoods to make way for the city-county government complex, the TCC, Music Hall and La Placita Village.
Johanna Eubank
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