The Seattle Public Library invites the public to see the design for the new Ballard Branch and Neighborhood Service Center from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, at Adams Elementary School, 6110 28th Ave. N.W., in the cafeteria. For more information, contact David Kunselman, Library project manager, at (206) 386-4096, or david.kunselman@spl.org.
Representatives from The Seattle Public Library and the Department of Neighborhoods and architects from Bohlin Cywinski Jackson will be on hand to discuss the design and answer questions.
Project artist Donald Fels of Fall City also will be present to discuss his vision for creating the art for the project.
The new 15,000-square-foot library and 3,100-square-foot neighborhood service center, which will be built on a site currently occupied by U.S. Bank at 22nd Avenue Northwest and Northwest 57th Street, will have more seats, an expanded collection of books and materials, expanded reference areas, larger areas for children and young adults, more computer space, a meeting room and parking. The existing 7,296-square-foot Ballard Branch was built in 1963.
The new $6,548,000 branch is part of the $196.4 million "Libraries for All" bond measure that Seattle voters passed in 1998. The bond money, which can be used only for construction of libraries, will fund improvements to all 22 branches, five new branches and the new central library. The $72 million Seattle Center/Community Centers levy that Seattle voters passed in 1999 will fund the neighborhood service center.
To date, the Library has completed the NewHolly, Wallingford and Delridge branches. The new Central Library and the Capitol Hill and Beacon Hill branches are currently under construction and planning and design is underway for more than a dozen other libraries.
The Seattle Public Library Foundation is in the midst of a "Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries" with the goal of raising $77.5 million from private sources to enhance the public bond commitment. Every dollar raised will ensure the library system reflects our community's needs in buildings, books, technology and people, long into the future.
For more information about the Foundation or "Libraries for All," visit the Library's Web site at www.spl.org.
(For more information, call Caroline Young Ullmann, Library communications assistant, at 206-615-1627.)
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