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City Plans $180M Central Library

WASHINGTON, DC-Mayor Anthony A. Williams presents the District Council with legislation for the approval of the issuing of $50 million in bonds. They will go toward constructing a $180-million central library at the former convention center site.

By Barbra Murray | Updated on May 03, 2006

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WASHINGTON, DC-In an effort to spur the development of a new central library, Mayor Anthony A. Williams has introduced the Library Transformation Act of 2006. The legislation was submitted to the Council of the District of Columbia and seeks approval of the issuance of bonds to finance the revamping of the city’s entire library system. It would specifically construct a replacement of the central library–the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library–on a parcel no larger than one acre at the former Washington Convention Center site.

According to the Mayor’s Task Force on the Future of the District of Columbia Public Library System, the new facility would cost $180 million to develop and would take an estimated three years to build. DC’s current central library is located at 901 G St, NW, two blocks west the Verizon Center and about two blocks south of the old convention center locale.

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