Fort Worth has been without a downtown library since 2023.
The city sold the old building and took years to land on a new site on the western edge of downtown at 512 W. 4th St.
Fort Worth Public Library director Midori Clark joined us to share her vision for the new building — and why having a downtown library at all is important.<\/p>\n
Midori Clark on …
… residents’ vision for the new library:
“One of the really popular ideas was that we want something iconic, something amazing, something incredible for our downtown library, something that would be a real jewel, a destination. We heard that idea over and over. We have just a tremendous opportunity to really re-imagine an entire city block on that western side of downtown Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
… the importance of having a downtown library:
“It’s just that place where everybody is welcome and there truly is something for everyone. There just aren’t very many places like that left. … I think even for people who haven’t been in a public library, let’s say for 10 years, 20 years, that idea is still very important that there is a place where people can go \u2014 your friends, your neighbors, your family \u2014 they can still go there.”<\/p>\n
… the timeline for the new space:
“The good news is there’s a lot of momentum, and there’s a lot of well wishes to have a library here sooner rather than later. But all that being said, I wish I could wave a magic wand and have it happen, but it’s just not gonna be a project that gets done in the next 12 to 24 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth has been without a downtown library since 2023.The city sold the old building and took years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-355994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}