The government don’t seem capable of building it or funding it, so why keep the citizens’ hopes up?
Read the whole thing at Charlottesville Tomorrow, and don’t miss the timeline of the Crozet Library.
By the end of the summer, the parking lot for the new Crozet Library will be completed. As for the $9.6 million, 20,000-square-foot library itself, Albemarle officials said last week that, absent sufficient capital funding, its start date was uncertain and the project may have missed the window of a very favorable construction market. ?
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“The most recent estimate that we just received has that cost estimate at around $6.8 million or just under $300 a square foot,” Henry said, describing the construction costs in the $9.6 million overall project. “The big drivers in that cost estimate change are site work and concrete.”
But at least we’ll have a parking lot.