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Library Will Bring Different Kind of Books To Wells Fargo Site

SEATTLE, WA-The Seattle Public Library would pay $1.2-million for the bank site at 2821 Beacon Ave. S., pending the okay of the library board of trustees when it votes on the issue in late January.

By Jack Burney | Updated on December 27, 2000

SEATTLE, WA-Books are essential to banks, but even more so to libraries. So it isn’t so curious that a library should take over a bank for its new quarters. The Seattle Public Library wants to do just that, if it can finalize a deal next month to buy the Wells Fargo Bank building at 2821 Beacon Ave. S. for a new branch library on Beacon Hill.

The Library would pay $1.2-million for the bank site, pending the okay of the library board of trustees when it votes January 23. Closing the deal will permit Carlson Architects to begin the design of the $4.7-million building renovation early in 2001.

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