There’s a little bad news and major good news for library lovers in Atlanta over the next month.
Three branches of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System will close their doors for good this Saturday: All located in Southeast Atlanta, they are the Carver branch on Lakewood Way; the Georgia Hill branch on Georgia Avenue and the Thomasville Branch on Thomasville Drive.
The closures will help make way for the brand new, fully updated Southeast Library that will open on June 30th. Located at 1463 Pryor Road, the 15,000 square foot library is part of the AFPLS’s Library Building Program, which includes eight new branches and two major expansion projects. In November 2008, Fulton County voters overwhelmingly passed the Library Bond Referendum that made possible the $275 million building program.
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The Southeast Library is the seventh new library to be completed under Phase I of the program. It joins branches that opened starting late in 2014 (Wolf Creek and Palmetto) and includes locations in North Fulton (Alpharetta, Milton, East Roswell), Atlanta (Metropolitan) and South Fulton.
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