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Staff outlines plans for a fourth Irving library; TIF 1 could help fund site and infrastructure
Summary
Library staff and finance staff presented a preliminary plan for a new 30,000-square-foot fourth branch to serve a city-center library-card 'desert' and noted the project could be partially funded within TIF 1 boundaries; estimated facility cost is about $49 million (land and demo excluded) with first-year operating costs of roughly $3 million.
Library Director Lynette Robertson briefed council on May 29 about plans for a potential fourth Irving Public Library branch in the city center. Robertson said voters authorized bond funding in 2021 and that the library service area analysis shows a relatively low library-card penetration near Las Colinas and the center-city area, which staff characterized as a “library card desert.”
Robertson provided a preliminary concept for a roughly 30,000-square-foot building with a planning-level construction estimate of about $49 million; she said that figure…
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