GRACE Marketplace celebrated the opening of its new library space on Tuesday, a project that began in the spring when the owners of The Lynx bookstore approached the homeless services provider.
“We did a tour [with the Lynx owners] and talked about some possible spaces, and we had a great space that was the old mail room when this was Gainesville Correctional Facility many years ago,” said Leesha English, GRACE Marketplace director of annual giving. “It was acting as book donation storage already, so it was the perfect swap over to get it cleaned up and ready to go for the library.”
The new area has room for over 1,300 books, which were donated by The Lynx Watch, Inc., the bookstore’s nonprofit arm, as well as Penguin Random House Books, Alachua County Library District’s Friends of the Library, and Russ and Mary Sibley…