BERLIN – Dozens of local officials and community members celebrated the start of construction of the town’s new library this week.
Worcester County officials hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for the new $6.4 million Berlin branch of the Worcester County Library set to open on Harrison Avenue in 2018. The state-of-the-art 12,000 square foot facility, to be located on ground that was once part of the famed Harrison Nurseries, will replace the long outgrown building on Main Street.
“It seems fitting this is where the new library will be,” said Jennifer Ranck, director of the Worcester County Library. “Instead of growing fruit trees we’ll be growing readers. We’ll be producing thinkers and cultivating lifelong learning.”
The new library, which is expected to open to the public in the summer of 2018, will feature roughly four times the floor space of the existing facility and will include a community meeting room as well as expanded areas for children and teens. Though a much enjoyed, homey space, the current library—built in 1970 on property owned by the Berlin Fire Company—has struggled for years to accommodate its many visitors.
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