In December of last year, Albemarle County Supervisors voted to postpone the construction of an expanded Crozet library.
“I am not willing to grant this anything more than a temporary setback at this point, because the library on schedule by 2012 would have been a tremendous boost to the resurgence of downtown Crozet and we were all counting on that,” said Board Chair Ann Mallek at the time. Mallek represents the White Hall District, which includes Crozet.
Now, according to the Daily Progress, officials hope the library can be finished with grants and donations. Although a fundraising committee has already raised a small amount of the proposed a goal of $1.6 million, members are asking for completion of the library’s design and engineering prior to renewed efforts in finding donors.
As approved earlier, the design for the new library calls for 18,000 square feet of space with an additional shelf space of around 5,000 square feet, a much larger facility compared to the less-than 2,000-square-foot existing facility.
An early library design.