WHO: Columbus Metropolitan Library
WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 9 | 3 p.m.
WHERE: 2800 Lockbourne Rd.
WHAT: Topping out of CML’s new Marion-Franklin Branch
Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) will commemorate the topping out of its new Marion-Franklin Branch with a photo opportunity for the media. The brief, highly visual event will mark a major construction milestone as the final steel beam is affixed to Marion-Franklin’s new library branch, expected to open in 2025.
CML CEO Lauren Hagan will be available for comment.
To prepare for construction, CML held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 29, 2024.
The current Marion-Franklin Branch, located within the former Beery Middle School at 2740 Lockbourne Rd., opened in 2014 as an “express branch” to serve a community that did not previously have close access to library services. It will remain open during construction of the new branch. The new, standalone Marion-Franklin Branch is under construction a few blocks to the south of the current branch and will more than double its size from roughly 4,000 square feet to approximately 10,000 square feet. CML hopes to open the new Marion-Franklin Branch in 2025. Turner is the construction manager at risk and Schooley Caldwell and EVOKE Studios are the architects.
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