Few downtown Sacramento buildings are more divisive among architecture aficionados than the Sacramento Community Center Theater, at L and 13th streets. The building’s 1974 provenance and Brutalist style (think towering blocks of rough concrete) made it, to some, an example of what not to do with public buildings. When the city began forming plans to update the structure in recent years, a few people advocated for tearing it down entirely and building something likely to age better in its place.
