Beacon Municipal Complex

Decatur, GA
Office of Design

The Beacon Municipal Center master plan for Decatur, Georgia, redevelops a former 1950’s era African American school into the city’s new civic center. The complex synthesizes a group of disparate city departments into a unified municipal campus. The center is comprised of a new 35,000 square foot building which houses police headquarters and municipal courts, the preservation of 20,000 square feet of the historic 1950’s school library and gymnasium for city youth programs, and the adaptive reuse of 25,000 square foot of former classroom space as an incubator for non-profit groups and local artists.