For decades, a hulking brick building sat shuttered in the middle of Brownsville. Once a Masonic Lodge with boarded-up windows, the structure had long been a vacant reminder of neglect in this part of west Pensacola.
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Now, sunlight streams through new windows, an elevator connects the two floors, and 5,000 books line the shelves. The 8,000-square-foot building has been reborn as the first library in Brownsville’s history…