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Hampstead Branch Library project on schedule; $500,000 donation announced and permits underway
Summary
Architects and the library director updated commissioners June 2 on the Hampstead Branch Library, saying permitting is underway, cost estimates remain near the budgeted amount and community fundraising has added $500,000 from the Topsail Township Friends of the Library toward a roughly $15.3 million project.
Pender County library leadership and the project team told the county board on June 2 that designs for the proposed Hampstead Branch Library are largely complete, permitting is in active review and the project remains within the current budget estimate.
Alan Phillips Bell, director of Pender County Library, and architects from Sawyer Sherwood and Associates presented updated renderings, a construction schedule and a permitting plan. Bell thanked the Topsail Township Friends of the Library for a $500,000 donation, part of about $1.6 million the project team said has been raised from community donors.
John Sawyer and partner Scott Spike described the design as a roughly 20,000-square-foot, predominantly masonry and metal building with daylighting strategies for reading…
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