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English: A look at the gargantuan Tom Davies Square in downtown Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, as seen from the corner of Brady and Paris Streets on a July 2015 morning. Inaugurated in 1977 as the opening act in a spate of urban renewal aimed at bringing vitality back to the city's moribund downtown, this is a complex of three interconnected government buildings designed in a Modernist style by the locally based firm of Townsend, Stefura, Baleshta & Nicholls and covering an area of nine and a half acres in the downtown core. At the center, a triangular four-story main building houses offices of the city government, flanked on the west (left) by the headquarters of the Greater Sudbury Police Service and on the north (right) by the Provincial Tower, which at a height of 13 stories dominates the downtown skyline and contains offices of the provincial government as its name indicates. In 1997, the erstwhile Civic Square was renamed in honor of Tom Davies, the outgoing chair of the municipal government who, during his 16 years in office, helped oversee the reinvention of Sudbury's economy away from the diminished nickel-mining sector toward a more modern footing of finance, tourism, regional government services, health care, education, film and television production, and science and technology research.