From The Washington Post:
Mayor Vincent C. Gray is proposing to spend more than $100 million in the coming years to remake the District’s four-decade-old central library, moving forward with a project that two previous mayors pondered but ultimately did not pursue.
Renovating the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, located downtown at 9th and G streets NW, would complete a $225 million transformation of the city’s public libraries and make good on longstanding promises to revitalize the aging steel-and-glass building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Gray unveiled the plans as part of his fiscal 2014 budget proposal, which he presented to D.C. Council members Thursday morning.
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Besides the central library spending, Gray also proposed more than $40 million to renovate or rebuild the system’s branches in Cleveland Park, Palisades and Woodridge. His proposal also would restore seven-day-a-week operations at all city libraries for the first time since 2009, when a budget crunch led to Sunday closings and abbreviated hours at neighborhood branches.
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