Mayor in talks with at least three groups to move to former downtown Wichita library

Plans for Wichita’s longtime downtown library are far from finalized, but Mayor Jeff Longwell has been in talks with several organizations about possibly relocating there.

“We’re excited about the possibility,” said KPTS, Channel 8, president and CEO Victor Hogstrom. “It’s a beautiful building.”

Longwell also has talked with the Kansas African American Museum and the Museum of World Treasures about locating there. The library closed last year when the new Advanced Learning Library — a $38 million downtown branch at Second and McLean Boulevard — opened in June.

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