Metropolitan Branch included in $275 million Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System Building Program.
Capitol View is one of the first of several planned Atlanta neighborhoods to receive a brand-new public library.
Al Collins, an architecture and planning professional for City of Atlanta, submitted a building permit application Friday to construct the Metropolitan Branch library, at 1332 Metropolitan Parkway.
An estimated $8,977,520 will be spent building the new 23,861-square-foot library, according to the permit application.
The Metropolitan Branch is designed by Smith Dalia Architects in association with Craig Gaulden Davis and Ai3, according to the project’s website.
The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System is engaged in a $275 million building program, funded by a library bond referendum approved by Fulton County voters in 2008.
The project is divided into two phases.
Phase one of the library building program consists of eight new libraries in Alpharetta, East Roswell, Metropolitan, Milton, Northwest Atlanta, Palmetto, Southeast Atlanta, and Wolf Creek, and the expansion of the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History and South Fulton.
Design has begun on several of the projects, and openings will begin in late 2014 and continue into 2015.
Phase two consists of 23 renovated libraries and will begin upon the completion of Phase one.
Follow updates on the city’s library project here.
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Photo: East Roswell Library (Capitol View rendering forthcoming.)
6 Responses
Just what we need, more libraries. Seriously?
Very Nice, the Libraries that currently surround the “new and coming” Metropolitan location, are always packed–I know because I’m a regular. Hopefully this library will suffice the heavy traffic that almost fills to capacity, the current existing libraries.
Is that the correct rendering for the Metropolitan Branch? According the library website, it looks like that is the East Roswell Branch rendering.
Hi Mark, you’re correct. We are waiting for the Met Branch rendering (see our photo credit in the article.) Thank you! ~ CJS
My bad. Missed the photo credit.
This is great news! Even as vehicles of media consumption continually transform, public libraries will remain as valuable educational and cultural assets to the communities in which they reside. Kudos to Fulton County for its ongoing commitment to ensuring that residents countywide have access to public libraries equipped for the 21st century!