For years, the Williamston library has been holed up in 900 square feet of space in the area community center, but the Williamston Community Library Foundation (WCLF) is on a mission to raise $2 million to build a brand new library.
“We own a piece of property that the building can be built on, and we have a pretty active fund raising organization going on,” says Marlene Epley with the WCLF.
The site is on an acre of land in Williamston and abuts the Brookshire Golf Course and the Grand River. The new facility could be as big as 10,000 square feet, more than 10 times as big as the current library.
Unlike other libraries in the area, the Williamston Library’s pending expansion is not contingent on a multi-million millage passing in August. If the millage passes, the Williamston Library will get roughly $3 million. However, the $2 million is enough to build a nice, new facility, Epley says.
“We made it our mission to raise money to build a library building,” she says.
The Williamston Library has conceptual designs of the new library and may shoot for some level of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) designation, but no plans have been finalized.
Source: Marlene Epley, Williamston Community Library Foundation
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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