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New Molino Library Ready For Bids Next Month
January 12, 2011
The renovation of the old Molino School into a community center, library and museum is moving a bit closer to reality.
The architects, DAG, have completed the design documents and are at the 90 percent stage on the construction documents. Escambia County Facilities Management expects to have the project ready for contractor bids by the end of February.
In May, 2009, commissioners approved the $400,000 purchase of the building from the Escambia County School District. Commissioners have since approved a budget of $2,089,156 from Local Option Sales Tax monies for the renovation project. DAG Architects is being paid $214,580 to design the renovations.
The project includes one section of the 15,600 square foot main building that will be converted into a library with both a children’s and adult area, computers and thousands of linear feet of book shelving. The old auditorium will remain a community auditorium with available seating for 242 people. The rest of the building will include a museum, classrooms and meeting rooms.
First opened in 1939, the Molino School closed in 2003 when the new Molino Park Elementary School consolidated Molino Elementary and Barrineau Park Elementary.
Pictured: A front hallway of the old Molino School. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “New Molino Library Ready For Bids Next Month”
i think you should add a starbucks or some sort of cafe that wouyld be awsome
another great idea, tlad!
Please reach out to our county commissioner, Kevin White, to request that he start planning to provide bike paths/pedestrian walk areas along 95A to make getting to the community center a safer undertaking than it is today. Thank you!
this is so great for the north end. all my children attended this school and it was rather sad when it closed, they were to old for the new molino elementary. but now for it to be turned into a library museum etc. it is a grand idea and will truly benefit this community.