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Whither the downtown library? First, there’s a $40 million proposal to site an expanded, dramatic new library on east end of the block bordered by Quarrier, Leon Sullivan Drive and Lee Streets (with possible destructive consequences for the Quarrier Diner). Then, new proposals started popping up like morning lawn mushrooms: maybe near the Civic Center instead? A West End locale that would revivify the area? While city fathers, city mothers and city teenagers hash it out, one longs to escape into the seeming jungle of zebra grass that engulfs the current, actual library downtown.

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