Pepper Grimmett, manager of the South Columbus Public Library , lived for part of her childhood in the neighborhood, so she has professional and personal experience to put this moment in proper perspective.
When the expanded and renovated SCPL opens Tuesday at 2034 South Lumpkin Road, this $9.4 million project will be a huge boost to this community, Grimmett predicts.
“They don’t have all the resources that are available in other parts of town,” she told the Ledger-Enquirer. “That is our goal, to bring all that to the residents and make them feel they’re just as important as anybody on the north side.”
For two years, the SCPL operated one-third of a mile away in the former school at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church while the new facility was built.
The new SCPL’s 21,000 square feet more than doubles the size of the original branch that was built in 1992. Alan Harkness, director of the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries , explained the rationale for a bigger and better facility to match the level of the two other branch libraries in Columbus.