With shovels in hand, library employees, city council members and others working on Olathe’s new downtown library broke ground for the project Sept. 18. The building will sit between Poplar and Santa Fe streets, two blocks east of the Johnson County District Courthouse. The Downtown Library is now located in a temporary space at 1078a W. Santa Fe St. It’s been there since April 2020, as the city has already sold its old location. Sara Eccles, branch manager, said that the new building is part of a master plan that started more than five years ago as a result of a study that showed the two Olathe libraries were not big enough to adequately serve the population of Olathe.
Source: Joco 913 News
