NEW YORK CITY-While the Brooklyn Public Library is looking for ways to save its Pacific Street branch, it issued a request for proposal to developers to demolish its Brooklyn Heights branch and replace it with a smaller branch location.
The Brooklyn Heights branch, which opened in 1962, requires more than $9 million in repairs, including a new air conditioning system, according to the Wall Street Journal.
By selling the property to a developer, Linda Johnson, the library's president and CEO, states, "We can build a brand new branch, and raise money to address some of the library's overwhelming needs in other neighborhoods." The Brooklyn Library has an estimated $300 million in deferred repairs across the library system. See story in the Wall Street Journal.
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