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Burbank unveils plans for new Library Civic Center, targets 2029 opening
Summary
City officials presented designs for a 97,500‑square‑foot Library Civic Center with a 310‑stall parking garage, about one acre of open space, and an estimated $185–$190 million total cost; city will issue an RFQ in May for a progressive design‑build team with construction targeted to start next summer and public opening around 2029.
Eric Lashley, Burbank’s library services director, and Houston Drumm of MOCA Services outlined plans March 10 for a new Library Civic Center intended to replace the city’s 1963 central library and serve as a regional destination.
The project as currently envisioned includes a roughly 97,500‑square‑foot building shared by the library and city offices (finance and management services), a 310‑stall parking structure and about one acre of primary open space with roughly 40,000 square feet of ancillary site work. Lashley said the site is planned across the street from the current library near Orange Grove, Glen Oaks, 3rd and Olive.
"Libraries are not about books. Libraries are about people," Lashley said, framing the project as a generational investment that will provide…
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