Construction is underway on Madison’s first new public library in a quarter century.
Construction broke ground in May on what will become the Imagination Center, Madison’s first library entirely within a public park and the first library in the Reindahl Park neighborhood.
Tana Elias, director of the Madison Public Library, recently told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” that the Imagination Center concept has been in the works for over a decade.
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In doing research on where to build the next city library, Elias said the library system clocked that the Reindahl Park neighborhood and the surrounding far northeast side of the city was a “resource desert,” lacking significant public community spaces…