The Davenport downtown library has closed for a 1.2 million dollar renovation project. No new space will be added to the 52 year old building, but the existing space will be re-configured.
Director Amy Groskopf (grose-kawf) says the project includes improving the children's area.
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A section of the main floor will be turned into what she calls "flex space."
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Because of the pandemic, the downtown Davenport library is closed anyway, except for computer appointments and curbside pickup of library materials. During the renovation these services will be available at the two branches.
Groskopf hopes all the work will be finished by mid-March.
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.