D.C. Public Library trustees abandoned a plan for the MLK Library that called for a two- or three-story addition such as the fifth-floor renovation shown in this model. ( The DC Public Library)

A plan three years in the making to pay for a renovation of the District’s central library by adding floors on top and renting them out has unraveled amid concerns about financing, practicality and historic preservation.

Instead, D.C. Public Library trustees voted last week to pursue a more modest, publicly financed renovation that they say could transform the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library into a world-class urban center of learning in as little as four years......Continue Reading

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