Tom Davies Square () is the city hall of Greater Sudbury, Ontario.
History
Built in the late 1970s and originally known as Civic Square or 'Place-Civique' in French, the building was part of an urban renewal movement toward transforming the city's visual image by investing in modern architecture. The square consists of a triangular main building with its right angle facing the corner of Brady and Paris Streets and a glass-walled hypoteneuse facing onto an outdoor plaza in the centre of the complex. This building contains the city hall proper, its administrative offices and the city council chambers. A diamond-shaped second building located to the west once contained the Sudbury Public School Board and the Sudbury Public Library's Archives branch. It now houses the headquarters of the Greater Sudbury Police Service.
Another similar shaped but taller building at 199 Larch, housing provincial government offices, was added to the northeast corner of the site several years later. although all bids received came in significantly higher than the city had budgeted for the project.
In 2023, the city council explored a proposal to shift most city government operations into the now-underused tower building at 199 Larch, while retrofitting the current council building on Brady into a cultural facility that would house the main branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library and the Art Gallery of Sudbury. The project was approved by city council in November 2023, and received $25 million in funding assistance from the federal government in September 2024.
