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You gotta be out of your mind to build a new library while so many people are losing everything in this economy. Has everyone forgot how to stop spending?
ReplyDeleteTo be fair it will create some construction jobs. Although if a local company does the work it will take twice as long and provide more work. If a regional builder comes in; they wont hire a single local firm and get the project done on time.
ReplyDeleteWrong time and wrong place!
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ReplyDeleteEver heard of "economic stimulus"?
I like the project but the site is terrible.
4:31 ever heard of higher taxes.
ReplyDeleteThey have received grants for this and the approval will expire if they don't use them.
ReplyDeletechurch street?! i hope they hire men with guns
ReplyDelete4:50 Grants huh, what do you think they do,walk out in the money tree orchard and start pickin? Buddy there aint no money tree orchard.
ReplyDeleteVery exciting, just the kind of anchor needed to bring about change on the north end of downtown. Yes, there is trouble in the Church Street area and along Rt. 13, but governments have successfully cleaned up blight and anchored communities by locating new public buildings in areas just like this one. Again, very exciting opportunity for Salisbury.
ReplyDeleteWow that is a dumb site idea, it looks good on paper but do the math, parking lot 10 is on the west side of rt 13 between 13 and the court house. On the north side is a steep grade climbing to rt 50. a 72,000 square foot facility will not leave 85% of the parking spaces, that is pure garbage. Then it will not be directly accessible from 13 or 50 as it leads you to believe, the lot doesn't empty there now because 50 is a different grade and 13 can not handle the traffic with the side streets and congestion already there. and I may be mistaken but I am pretty sure that there are regulations on putting entrances on to major US routes. Bet the new site doesn't meet them.
ReplyDeleteSomehow someone will benefit financially in a BIG way. We all know that is the truth.
ReplyDeleteWhy not buy the old E.B.S. building I think its in foreclosure, those pesky rentals go with it.
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool we need a first class library.
ReplyDeleteI'll back that great location fabulous idea.
ReplyDeleteWe need a first class library so all the people who ride those buses will have somewhere to go and stand around while waiting for their bus? Where will the flea market move to?
ReplyDeleteBad timing and worse location.If I am correct,Lot 10 is across the highway from the
ReplyDeleteRoyal Farms and traffic is always congested around there.
One question. Where in the world will all of the patrons of the District Court, and all of the vistors to the other state offices park?
ReplyDeleteit needs to be in the same place
ReplyDeleteThis is one of those is-it-a-need-or-a-want questions. Of course a new library would be a wonderful thing, but where is all the funding supposed to come from? The grant is for site acquisition and such, but where will the rest of the millions come from? As several others have remarked, the timing is unfortunate. Maybe the old fire station can be renovated as an annex for the library.
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To be fair it will create some construction jobs. Although if a local company does the work it will take twice as long and provide more work. If a regional builder comes in; they wont hire a single local firm and get the project done on time.
4:03 PM
Your comment makes no sense at all. Are you saying Gillis-Gilkerson, Lifetime Masonry, or TEMCO are dawdlers in getting jobs done?
The library should stay where it is. There is no reason for the library to move and take over a parking lot that is needed for the court buildings. Let it take over the parking lot next to the current library. That would give a building facade that would expand the downtown, instead of a parking lot where buildings that used to stand were torn down. make half that lot the library the other half a parking garage. tear the old library down and make it a mini park. and also tear that damn plaza up and put a two way street in there. that is the only way to get traffic downtown.
ReplyDeleteAMAZING!!! Finally, Salisbury is doing something right. To the naysayers: there's some really nice communities on the Western Shore. I recommend you move there.
ReplyDeleteI'm with 11:10. New building would be nice, but that lot by Rt. 13 isn't good. Except one way is enough with the Plaza. Heard Urban Salisbury will flip the traffic to head east. Good idea.
ReplyDeleteSure feels like some good change can come to Salisbury now.
We don't need no darn new library. Libraries make people wants ta read and readin' will make em want an edjumacation. And edjumacation be bad and a waste of my tax monies. If the childs want an edjumacation, then we gots to pay all those lazy teachers thems big fat salaries from my tax monies. We all gonna be workin' in da chicken bidness anyway, so why we need to be readin' books and gettin' an edjumacation for?
ReplyDeleteWhy not build it where the old theatre was just torn down? Patrons can park in parking lot #10. The library would be clearly visible from either side of Rt. 13, and make it several stories so it is a signature building.
ReplyDeleteIf any downtown expansion is to be done, do it on the riverfront. Parking lots don't need a water vuew.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I've been in Salisbury 17 years now and have always heard that the Library building is the most modern energy efficient building in town; way ahead of its time. If it's now ready for demolition, where does that leave the rest of Downtown???
No, no, no, and NO!
ReplyDeleteIf you do, there will be NOTHING down town.
Not the right time. Grant money be damned.
If we can't adaquately fund schools we shouldn't even be wasting time and money talking about a new library.
ReplyDelete5:45 is right
Grant = tax money too
It just costs more and takes longer to get back to the people that paid the taxes to make that grant possible.