PORT ST. LUCIE — The Port St. Lucie Branch Library will close Saturday, Aug. 30, as St. Lucie County prepares to demolish the current building and construct a new, state-of-the-art facility in its place.
“The Port St. Lucie Branch Library is being closed for, I would say renovations, but it’s actually a reconstruction project,” said Erick Gill, communications director for St. Lucie County. “We’re going to be demolishing the current building and rebuilding a new library in that spot where it’s at now. And we don’t have an estimated time frame of how long that’s going to be closed because this is such a major renovation project. We don’t really want to put a timeline on it.”
The new library will be more than 10,000 square feet, nearly four times larger than the current facility. Built in 1974, the branch began as 1,400 square feet before expanding to 4,400 square feet in 1987.
“The Port St. Lucie Branch Library is the city’s oldest library. It was built in 1974 and it was the smallest library. It’s only 1,400 square feet. And so it’s going to be almost four times that. The new library will be expanded to more than 10,000 square feet,” Gill said…