Plenty of interesting items on the city council's Economic Development Committee's agenda today -- including Merten's fave, the convention center hotel. But a smaller item on the agenda deals with how the city wants to repurpose the old Hampton/Illinois Library, which the city walked away from in the summer of 2006, 26years after it opened on W. Illinois Avenue. The city's trying to determine whether it's better to sell off the property -- and the owner would deal with considerable zoning restrictions, not to mention a significant lack of parking -- or just lease the property, which is on the books for $516,750. Because, problem is, the city figures it'd take about $700,000 to redo the joint, though it figures it could make nearly $300,000 from leasing the place -- only, under one plan, the tenant would be responsible for the rehab. --Robert Wilonsky
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Pssst, Want an Old Library?
Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 10:28:21 AM
Category: News You Can Actually Use, Actually
Not sure where that 1980 date (from the briefing) comes from. The H/I Library has been around at least the early 70's as it is the first Library I remember spending any significant time in during my Oak Cliff childhood.
I have a memory from the early to mid 70's that the library would have some sort of day camp during the summer and that they would show 16mm prints of classic films. I remember watching both The Music Man and East of Eden while laying on the floor in the small auditorium.
I also remember as an 8 year old trying to figure out what the hell was the deal with James Dean.
Posted at: April 7, 2008 11:01 AM