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Library shelves downtown expansion plans until 2018
$2 million state grant needed to renovate countys busiest branch
Mark Pettitt
Mark Pettitt
Plans to expand Hall County’s downtown Gainesville library branch are being shelved for another year. There’s $1.5 million in the bank to renovate the branch of the Hall County Library System, but plans for the building call for another $500,000 in local money and a $2 million construction grant from the state, according to system Director Lisa MacKinney. Gainesville’s branch won’t see any activity until after the state’s next legislative session at the earliest, she said on Friday.