Next week city employees will begin moving their offices to new temporary locations on Broadway and Church streets as the 50-year-old brutalist Salem Civic Center gets its long awaited seismic retrofit .

Many services including the Salem Municipal Court, customer service center, permit application center as well as the mayor and city manager’s office will be temporarily housed elsewhere as the $39.4 million retrofit project begins.

The retrofit is paid for by the 2022 voter-approved infrastructure bond and is expected to be done by February 2027.

It will take a couple weeks for the moving process to be completed. Some city services will remain at the civic center until later in June, the city said in a release last week.

Two temporary spaces, one on the fourth and fifth floors at the

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