Locating the University Place in the heart of our future Town Center project has always been a critical component of this ambitious public/private partnership. The City completed most of the underlying parking garage last year, and the contract has been awarded to Jody Miller Construction to build the Library and Civic portion of the project.
Due to the turmoil of the bond market, the planned bond sale in February was postponed, thus sparing the City from increased interest costs. Now that the market has improved, the City anticipates selling the needed construction bonds this summer. Basic construction is scheduled to be complete by September 2010. The Library district plans to be completely moved in to the new building by the end of the year.
The new library will be 15,000 square feet with expansion room to grow to 20,000 square feet . (The old library was 12,000 sq. feet)