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Post subject: Library to rent old CVS Old Courthouse to be vacant
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 6:46 pm
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As Walker prepares to scale back hours what I call ,quasi gov't, the library, will rent rare Dade County commercial space. According to a report in the Times Free Press the Dade County Library will rent the old CVS and remain in there for over a year. Bids have not been held yet so no completion or start date is known. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010 ... rary-move/
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TEMPORARY LOCATION Beginning Oct. 25, the Dade County Public Library will be located at 2058 S. Main Street in Trenton, Ga., for about two weeks.
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The Dade County Public Library is boxing its books and moving, then moving again.
The current building on Court Street will close its doors Oct. 11 and then reopen two weeks later at the former CVS store next to Ingles on Main Street. While the library is in CVS, crews will renovate the library building.
A plan has been drafted and bids from contractors are due back on Sept. 9, but there is no set time frame for the renovations to be completed and the library moved back to its original location.
“They can’t possibly move all of this stuff,” incredulous patron Val Netherly said when told of the move.
Library staff already have begun consolidating shelves and boxing up what they can.
The renovation could cost $850,000 and will expand the building from 8,000 square feet to 12,000. Some of the added space will be for computers and a genealogy resources.
“We’re going from a genealogy closet to an actual family genealogy room,” said Lecia Eubanks, director of North Georgia’s Cherokee Regional Library System, which administrates the Dade library.
Jack Killian, architect for the project, said the changes will add space and “pizzazz” to the building, particularly with a young adult computer area.
“Right now it’s a corner of a room, but in the new plan it’s a room,” he said of the computer lab.
Eubanks said $676,000 is coming from the state to be combined with $50,000 from Dade County and $30,000 from Trenton. The library also hopes to receive a $100,000 federal grant, he said.
Eubanks said due dates on books, DVDs and other media will be reset so none are due during the downtime.
Netherly, 90, reads seven or eight books between her weekly visits and said people often overlook the library. She has seen the library evolve from a table of books in the corner of a hardware store when she was younger and said it has been inconvenient every time it has moved.
“I hate for it to be torn up all of the time,” she said.
Her daughter-in-law Carolyn Netherly said the closure will be worth it.
“She’ll really like it when it’s done,” the younger Netherly said.
After speaking to one commisioner he told me that the New Courthouse will be ready by Oct. 1. That made me wonder how much is the rent. I bet it will equate to more than the county is giving to the project. So why not instead offer the old courthouse as an inkind rental thus a win win for both sides. Special accomidations counld be made for the handicap individuals. The amount of lease deposit lost would not be that much. Has anyone seen the new plans?
Post subject: Re: Library to rent old CVS Old Courthouse to be vacant
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:20 am
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How many days was the Library in the location since the "Mold Issue". I really don't like moving that much.. Done it twice in six months one time and hated it.lol..lol.... But one thing for sure is that where they are moving has the HIGHEST Rent per square foot than anything available in Trenton... Just ask the fine folks of Factory Connection...
Post subject: Re: Library to rent old CVS Old Courthouse to be vacant
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:18 pm
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When we renovated the library last time to get rid of mold we found so little you could cover it with your hand. What a waste of money. Now we're in the worst economy in the last 80 years and they're wanting to spend money to expand. Dade County should contribute ZERO to this effort.
_________________ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. .. those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C.S. Lewis
Post subject: Re: Library to rent old CVS Old Courthouse to be vacant
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:48 pm
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The paper said they are moving into a 8000 square foot building. If it rented at 0.50 cents a square foot not including electricity for 10 moonths that would be $40,000 and for 12 months $48,000. So basically the counties match is to pay their rent, wash it down the toilet. I say they can stay in the old courthouse, use the $50k to make it handicap accessible even if you have to kick in some old courthouse splost funds, at the end of the day you have old courthouse that is handicap accessible and the county has given them an in kind donation. Has anybody seen or approved the plans for the new addition at the county level? I think about all those county employees that are about to get furloughed and that 50k match would sure seem better paying their salaries right now.
Post subject: Re: Library to rent old CVS Old Courthouse to be vacant
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:35 pm
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The CVS building, gutted, vacant and with all that parking, seemed ideal, but Soloff Properties, the company that manages the building, wanted a rent too rich for the library’s blood. It was Ms. Eubanks who rolled up her sleeves and went to the negotiation table with Soloff, but Ms. Brewer understands the rent was lessened considerably on the condition the library show willing to move out with a 60-day notice in the event a commercial tenant is found for the space. “It worked out to the good of the library and for the good of the community,” said Ms. Brewer.
but Soloff Properties, the company that manages the building, wanted a rent too rich for the library’s blood. Wonder if anybody told them it was not the Library's blood they were spending????? It was the taxpayers money!
Post subject: Re: Library to rent old CVS Old Courthouse to be vacant
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 12:21 am
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Rex don't muddy the waters with facts... It is like all the hooplah from the Board of Education cheering about being so bad they need Federal Tax Dollars to get into a race....
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