Eastpoint Library grand opening draws big crowd

Nearly 150 people turned out Tuesday to welcome the new public library building on Hickory Dip Road in Eastpoint.

Work on the 5000 square foot building and its parking lot was completed earlier this year.

Library staff spent much of the summer moving books and computers and other library necessities from its much smaller location at the Point Mall where the library was housed since 1992.

The library project was 8 years in the making.

Friends of the library president Joyce Estes said she was asked to spearhead the project in 2004, and she thought it would take just a few years to complete.

It took considerably longer than she thought.

But thanks to hard work from a number of local groups and citizens the library project survived funding issues and a world-wide economic crash.

Many of the people who have given of their time and money were recognized at the ribbon cutting.

And as Miss Estes point out, there is still work left to do.

In the short term the project needs outdoor lighting and landscaping.

One day there could also be an art center along side the library as well as boardwalks over the Indian Creek wetlands which adjoin the new library building.

If you have not yet visited the new library building, it is open to the public Tuesday through Friday. 

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