Millennium Square is the City's downtown civic center and a focal point for its business and theatre districts. Development began in 1999, as part of an effort to revitalize and draw more business to the downtown area. The square itself is located at one end of four acres of land formerly known as Midtown Park, a popular haunt for petty criminals and prostitutes. Now the area has been completely relandscaped, with well-lit pedestrian paths winding through the trees.
Millennium Square is also the home of the City's veterans' memorial, commemorating those citizens who fought in our nation's battles throughout history. The memorial predates the Square, which was built around it. The memorial is regularly haunted by the ghosts of veterans of the Gulf War and Iraq Wars, although they rarely bother mortal visitors.
The existence of a subterranean crypt underneath the memorial, housing the bodies of unknown and/or disgraced soldiers, has been a popular urban myth for many years. While no such crypt exists, the memorial is in fact built over the site of one of the pumping stations in the City's old sewer system.