The ceremony naming the building the Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods will begin at 10 a.m. at 818 Missouri Ave. The building’s namesake was a highly respected Fort Worth educator and community leader.  

The center will house the city’s Code Compliance and Community Relations departments as well as a Neighborhood Policing District storefront. Completion is scheduled for late 2009. 

In Fort Worth, Mrs. Peace’s name is synonymous with commitment to service and passion for education. She earned degrees at Howard University and Columbia University, returned to Fort Worth and taught at I.M. Terrell High School for decades.  

Mrs. Peace also served as a counselor, dean of girls and vice principal. After retirement from the public schools, she served at various Texas colleges.  

She was the first African-American woman to have a professorship at a four-year state-funded Texas institution named for her: the University of North Texas’ Hazel Harvey Peace Professorship in Children’s Library Services. 

Quick facts on the Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods

·        36,800 square feet

·        1,200-square-foot public meeting room

·         five aluminum sculptures by artist Floyd Newsum Jr. will hang in the building's two-story lobby

·        67 parking spaces in the adjacent lot and 146 spaces in a lot across the street, accommodating future development

·        the city’s first building designed to meet the Leadership in Environmental Excellence Design (LEED) Silver standard