Hundreds of people turned out on a drizzly morning Oct. 19 for the long-awaited opening of the new Indian Creek Library at 16100 W. 135th St. The $19 million library, designed by Gould Evans, is packed with some of the latest technology and features.
It’s been 3 1/2 years since the Indian Creek Library building at 127th Street and Black Bob Road flooded. In the interim, the library inhabited a small strip mall space at 13511 S. Mur-Len Road. The 47,000-square-foot building, the former site of a Hy-Vee, is about half a mile northeast of that temporary space.
“We are just excited to have our library back,” said Olathe resident Maggie Chang, who came to Saturday’s opening event with her 9-year-old son Jonah.
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