{"id":36494,"date":"2017-09-07T09:43:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=36494"},"modified":"2017-09-07T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:43:21","slug":"kennett-library-signs-deal-to-acquire-property-for-new-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=36494","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Library signs deal to acquire property for new building"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Library Chairman Tom Swett (right) signed an agreement of sale on Wednesday with Borough Council President Dan Maffei for the site ofthe proposed new library.<\/p><\/div>\n

KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 After decades of seeking a new home, Kennett Library officials signed a deal Wednesday that could finally lead to the building of a new home for the regional library.<\/p>\n

A jubilant Kennett Library Chairman Tom Swett signed an agreement of sale with the borough to purchase a half-acre parcel of borough land known as the Weinstein lot, located in the heart of Historic Kennett Square. The site will become the home for a new regional and community library center.<\/p>\n

Swett told local and county leaders at a Wednesday morning signing ceremony that the land purchase fulfills an important promise.<\/p>\n

\u201cA year ago, the Library Trustees made a promise to do everything possible to secure a great site in the center of Kennett Square for a new library building. With the Borough\u2019s help, we have succeeded. We kept our promise,\u201d Swett said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Weinstein lot is one block east of our present building and is located right along State Street near the YMCA,\u201d Swett continued. \u201cWe are putting up a sign shortly so everyone will know exactly where the new library will be in a few years. We are thankful to the Borough Council of Kennett Square for making the property available and for giving us a very fair price.\u201d<\/p>\n

Library Trustee Brenda Mercomes, who emceed the signing ceremony, was pleased by the unanimous support of the Borough Council for the sale of the Weinstein property to the Library.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kennett Library is extremely important to the Borough of Kennett Square and this entire region,\u201d Mercomes continued. The Library serves every part of our community and brings over a hundred thousand people into the Borough each year. As a result,\u201d Mercomes said, \u201cthe Library enjoys strong support from Borough Council and the business community. It\u2019s not difficult to see that a newer, bigger and more accessible library will quickly become a community centerpiece for the Borough and for all those who visit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scudder Stevens, Chairman of the Kennett Township Board of Supervisors, spoke of his township\u2019s continuing commitment to the Library and the upcoming capital campaign.\u00a0 Stevens encouraged each of the other seven municipalities served by the Kennett Library \u201cto make a generous financial commitment to insure the new Library becomes a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 After decades of seeking a new home, Kennett Library officials signed a deal Wednesday that could finally lead to the building of a new home for the regional library. A jubilant Kennett Library Chairman Tom Swett signed an agreement of sale with the borough to purchase a half-acre parcel of borough land […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7426,8416,90,9226,10352],"class_list":["post-36494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-kennett-library","tag-kennett-square","tag-new-building","tag-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36495,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36494\/revisions\/36495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}